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poverty lines

poverty lines is the plural of poverty line.

Meaning of poverty line

Noun

poverty line (plural poverty lines)

  1. The threshold of poverty, below which one's income does not cover necessities.
    • America’s poverty line is $63 a day for a family of four. In the richer parts of the emerging world $4 a day is the poverty barrier. But poverty’s scourge is fiercest below $1.25 (the average of the 15 poorest countries’ own poverty lines, measured in 2005 dollars and adjusted for differences in...2013 June 1, “Towards the end of poverty”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8838, page 11

Questions about poverty lines

What is poverty lines the plural of?
Poverty lines is the plural of poverty line.

Words near poverty lines in the dictionary

  1. poverty grass
  2. poverty grasses
  3. poverty is a mindset
  4. poverty is a state of mind
  5. poverty line
  6. poverty lines
  7. poverty of the stimulus
  8. poverty poker
  9. poverty porn
  10. Poverty premium
  11. Poverty Row

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