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pauperisation

pauperisation is the alternative spelling of pauperization.

Meaning of pauperization

Noun

pauperization (countable and uncountable, plural pauperizations)

  1. The act or process of reducing to poverty.
    • the modern schemes for the amelioration which ignore the laws of competition, must end either in pauperization, […] or in the destruction of property1848, [Charles Kingsley], Yeast: A Problem. […], London: John W[illiam] Parker, […], published 1851, →OCLC

Forms of pauperisation

pluralpauperisations

Questions about pauperisation

What is pauperisation the alternative spelling of?
Pauperisation is the alternative spelling of pauperization.

Words near pauperisation in the dictionary

  1. pauperdom
  2. paupered
  3. pauperess
  4. pauperesses
  5. paupering
  6. pauperisation
  7. pauperisations
  8. pauperise
  9. pauperised
  10. pauperises
  11. pauperising

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