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- Dictionarydeprivation/ˌdɛprɪˈveɪʃn/
noun
- 1. the damaging lack of material benefits considered to be basic necessities in a society: "low wages mean that 3.75 million people suffer serious deprivation" Similar Opposite
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a situation in which you do not have things or conditions that are usually considered necessary for a pleasant life: They used sleep deprivation as a form of torture. There is awful deprivation in the shanty towns. There were food shortages and other deprivations during the Civil War.
a situation in which you do not have things or conditions that are usually considered necessary for a pleasant life: They used sleep deprivation as a form of torture. There is awful deprivation in the shanty towns. There were food shortages and other deprivations during the Civil War.
The meaning of DEPRIVATION is the state of being kept from possessing, enjoying, or using something : the state of being deprived : privation; especially : removal from an office, dignity, or benefice.
If you suffer deprivation, you do not have or are prevented from having something that you want or need. ...long-term patients who face a life of deprivation. American English : deprivation / dɛprɪˈveɪʃən /
noun. the act of depriving. the fact of being deprived. deprive. dispossession; loss. removal from ecclesiastical office. privation. deprivation. / ˌdɛprɪˈveɪʃən / noun. an act or instance of depriving. the state of being deprived. a cycle of deprivation and violence. social deprivation.
If you know the word deprive — meaning to keep something away from someone — then you’re close to knowing what deprivation means. It describes the state of not having something. Poor people experience a lot of deprivation: poverty keeps them from having enough food or shelter. Plants experiencing water deprivation will shrivel up and die.
the fact of not having something that you need, like enough food, money or a home; the process that causes this. children living in poverty and deprivation. a study of the effects of sleep deprivation. the deprivation of war (= the suffering caused by not having enough of some things) the deprivations and hardships resulting from the blockade.
1. an act or instance of depriving. 2. the state of being deprived: social deprivation; a cycle of deprivation and violence. Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014.
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If you suffer deprivation, you do not have or are prevented from having something that you want or need. Thai : การขาดแคลน, การมีไม่พอ, การถูกแย่งไป
