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fuel poverty

fuel poverty noun: the inability of a household to keep adequately warm at a reasonable cost.

Noun

fuel poverty (uncountable)

  1. (Ireland, New Zealand, UK) The inability of a household to keep adequately warm at a reasonable cost.

Questions about fuel poverty

What does fuel poverty mean?
Fuel poverty means the inability of a household to keep adequately warm at a reasonable cost.
What part of speech is fuel poverty?
Fuel poverty is a noun.

Words near fuel poverty in the dictionary

  1. fuel loads
  2. fuel molecule
  3. fuel molecules
  4. fuel oil
  5. fuel oils
  6. fuel poverty
  7. fuel provider
  8. fuel providers
  9. fuel pump
  10. fuel pumps
  11. fuel rod

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