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income-poor

income-poor adjective: suffering from income poverty.

Adjective

income-poor (comparative more income-poor, superlative most income-poor)

  1. Suffering from income poverty.
    • Farmers may be "asset rich" but in times of drought and falling commodity prices they are "income poor".1983 April 6, The Tribune, Sydney, page 8, column 4

Forms of income-poor

comparativemore income-poor
superlativemost income-poor

Questions about income-poor

What does income-poor mean?
Income-poor means suffering from income poverty.
What part of speech is income-poor?
Income-poor is an adjective.

Words near income-poor in the dictionary

  1. income tax
  2. income tax return
  3. income tax returns
  4. income taxes
  5. income-elastic
  6. income-poor
  7. incomed
  8. incomeless
  9. incomelessness
  10. incomer
  11. incomers

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