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- Dictionaryunderprivileged/ˌʌndəˈprɪvɪlɪdʒd/
adjective
- 1. (of a person) not enjoying the same standard of living or rights as the majority of people in a society: "needy and underprivileged members of the community"
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UNDERPRIVILEGED definition: 1. without the money, possessions, education, opportunities, etc. that the average person has: 2…. Learn more.
1. : deprived through social or economic condition of some of the fundamental rights of all members of a civilized society. 2. : of or relating to underprivileged people. underprivileged areas of the city. Synonyms. depressed. deprived. disadvantaged. See all Synonyms & Antonyms in Thesaurus. Examples of underprivileged in a Sentence.
Someone underprivileged doesn't have the advantages other people have. Underprivileged people usually live in poverty. A privilege is a right or an advantage, and people who are underprivileged lack such rights and advantages.
Underprivileged definition: denied the enjoyment of the normal privileges or rights of a society because of low economic and social status.. See examples of UNDERPRIVILEGED used in a sentence.
(ʌndəʳprɪvɪlɪdʒd ) adjective [usually ADJECTIVE noun] Underprivileged people have less money and fewer possessions and opportunities than other people in their society. ...helping underprivileged children to learn to read. ...the hideous effects of government cuts on underprivileged families.
[usually before noun] having less money and fewer opportunities than most people in society synonym disadvantaged. underprivileged sections of the community. educationally/socially underprivileged groups. No one from these educationally underprivileged groups has a chance of getting to university.
without the money, possessions, education, opportunities, etc. that the average person has: Children from an underprivileged family background are statistically more likely to become involved in crime. Compare. privileged.
Underprivileged definition: Lacking the standard of living and opportunities enjoyed by most people in a society.
adjective. uk / ˌʌndəˈprɪv ə lɪdʒd / us. Add to word list. poor and having fewer opportunities than most people: underprivileged families. (Definition of underprivileged from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press) Translations of underprivileged. in Chinese (Traditional) 貧困的, 屬於弱勢群體的, 底層的… See more. in Chinese (Simplified)
UNDERPRIVILEGED meaning: 1 : having less money, education, etc., than the other people in a society having fewer advantages, privileges, and opportunities than most people poor or disadvantaged; 2 : underprivileged people.
