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Deprivation

Deprivation Meaning & Definition
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.

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