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Deprivation

Deprivation Definition And Meaning
What's The Definition Of Deprivation? [n] act of depriving someone of food or money or rights; "nutritional privation"; "deprivation of civil rights" [n] the disadvantage that results from losing something; "his loss of credibility led to his resignation"; "losing him is no great deprivation" [n] a state of extreme poverty Synonyms \| Synonyms for Deprivation: loss \| privation \| privation \| want Related Terms \| Find terms related to Deprivation: abnegation \| abridgment \| absence \| awayness \| banishment \| bare cupboard \| bare subsistence \| beggarliness \| beggary \| bereavement \| blackballing \| blank \| cashiering \| contradiction \| cost \| curtailment \| damage \| dead loss \| debit \| declension \| declination \| declinature \| declining \| deconsecration \| defectiveness \| deficiency \| deficit \| defrocking \| degradation \| demotion \| denial \| denudation \| depluming \| deportation \| deposal \| deposition \| deprivement \| despoilment \| destitution \| destruction \| dethronement \| detriment \| disagreement \| disallowance \| disassembly \| disbarment \| disbarring \| disburdening \| disburdenment \| disclaimer \| disclamation \| discrownment \| disenthronement \| disentitlement \| disfellowship \| dismantlement \| dismemberment \| dismissal \| disobedience \| displacement \| displuming \| dispossession \| dissent \| divestment \| drought \| emptiness \| empty purse \| exclusion \| excommunication \| exile \| expatriation \| expense \| expulsion \| extradition \| famine \| firing \| forced resignation \| forfeit \| forfeiture \| fugitation \| grinding poverty \| gripe \| hand-to-mouth existence \| holding back \| homelessness \| impeachment \| imperfection \| impoverishment \| incompleteness \| indigence \| injury \| kicking upstairs \| lack \| liquidation \| loser \| losing \| losing streak \| loss \| mendicancy \| moneylessness \| nay \| necessitousness \| necessity \| need \| neediness \| negation \| negative \| negative answer \| negativeness \| negativity \| neverness \| nihility \| nix \| no \| nonacceptance \| nonbeing \| noncompliance \| nonconsent \| nonentity \| nonexistence \| nonobservance \| nonoccurrence \| nonpresence \| nonreality \| nonsubsistence \| not-being \| nothingness \| nowhereness \| nullity \| omission \| ostracism \| ostracization \| ousting \| outlawing \| outlawry \| overthrow \| overthrowal \| pauperism \| pauperization \| pensioning off \| penury \| perdition \| pinch \| privation \| purge \| recantation \| refusal \| rejection \| relegation \| relieving \| removal \| repudiation \| retention \| retirement \| robbery \| ruin \| rustication \| sacrifice \| shortage \| shortcoming \| shortfall \| spoliation \| starvation \| stripping \| subtraction \| superannuation \| suspension \| taking away \| thumbs-down \| total loss \| transportation \| turndown \| unactuality \| unchurching \| undoing \| unfrocking \| unreality \| unseating \| unwillingness \| vacancy \| vacuity \| vacuum \| void \| want \| wantage \| withholding See Also \| disadvantage \| impoverishment \| impoverishment \| pauperisation \| pauperization \| poorness \| poverty \| social control \| starvation \| starving Deprivation In Webster's Dictionary \Dep`ri*va"tion\, n. [LL. deprivatio.] 1. The act of depriving, dispossessing, or bereaving; the act of deposing or divesting of some dignity. 2. The state of being deprived; privation; loss; want; bereavement. 3. (Eccl. Law) the taking away from a clergyman his benefice, or other spiritual promotion or dignity. Note: Deprivation may be a beneficio or ab officio; the first takes away the living, the last degrades and deposes from the order.

Deprivation Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Deprivation?

[n] act of depriving someone of food or money or rights; "nutritional privation"; "deprivation of civil rights"
[n] the disadvantage that results from losing something; "his loss of credibility led to his resignation"; "losing him is no great deprivation"
[n] a state of extreme poverty

Synonyms | Synonyms for Deprivation: loss | privation | privation | want

Deprivation In Webster's Dictionary

\Dep`ri*va"tion\, n. [LL. deprivatio.]
1. The act of depriving, dispossessing, or bereaving; the act
   of deposing or divesting of some dignity.

2. The state of being deprived; privation; loss; want;
   bereavement.

3. (Eccl. Law) the taking away from a clergyman his benefice,
   or other spiritual promotion or dignity.

Note: Deprivation may be a beneficio or ab officio; the first
      takes away the living, the last degrades and deposes
      from the order.

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