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poor peo·ple

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. poor people, poornoun

    people without possessions or wealth (considered as a group)

    "the urban poor need assistance"

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  1. poor people

    Poor people refers to individuals or groups who lack sufficient financial resources or wealth, often resulting in an inability to meet basic needs such as food, shelter, and clothing. Economic hardship, lack of educational opportunities, unemployment or underemployment can contribute to this status. The definition of poverty may vary depending on the context or the regional cost of living.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of poor people in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of poor people in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of poor people in a Sentence

  1. Former Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley:

    And certainly the concentrated wealth and accumulated power and the systematic deregulation of Wall Street has led to this situation where the economy isn't working for most of us. All of that is true, but it is not true that regulation holds poor people down or regulation keeps middle class from advancing. That's kind of patently bulls---.

  2. Somsak Piriyayota:

    We have a government policy to reclaim forests - from investors, but not from poor people. With shrimp farmers, it's generally investors.

  3. Chukwumerije Okereke:

    When things go wrong, it is usually the poor people that suffer the most.

  4. Daryl Davis and Preston:

    I do not believe that illegals should be here and never have, OK ? If you want to become an American citizen, I don't care what culture you come from, don't come over here to make money here, to send it back home, depleting our finances and creating a better life for your family back home when we have people here who were starving to death. We need to take care of our veterans. We needed to take care of our homeless. We needed to take care of the poor people of our country. OK ? There are the things we need to focus on. All these illegals getting all this money handed to them is wrong.

  5. Lou Tit-Man:

    The affluent people just take everything from poor people, in the long-term I want Hong Kong to become an equal society.

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