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poormasters

poormasters is the plural of poormaster.

Meaning of poormaster

Noun

poormaster (plural poormasters)

  1. (historical) A person employed to validate the claims of people applying for relief, and to issue the funds where applicable.

Questions about poormasters

What is poormasters the plural of?
Poormasters is the plural of poormaster.

Words near poormasters in the dictionary

  1. poorly
  2. poorlyish
  3. Poorman
  4. Poormans
  5. poormaster
  6. poormasters
  7. poormouth
  8. poormouthed
  9. poormouthing
  10. poormouths
  11. poorness

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Adapted from Wiktionary: poormasters (page history and authors); poormaster (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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