deprivation (noun)
1deprivation — ► NOUN 1) hardship resulting from the lack of basic material benefits. 2) the action of depriving or the state of being deprived …
2deprivation — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ extreme, severe ▪ relative ▪ sensory ▪ emotional ▪ economic, material …
3deprivation — noun 1) unemployment and deprivation Syn: poverty, impoverishment, penury, privation, hardship, destitution; need, want, distress, indigence, beggary, ruin; straitened circumstances Ant: wealth …
4deprivation — noun 1) unemployment and deprivation Syn: poverty, impoverishment, privation, hardship, destitution, need, want 2) deprivation of political rights Syn: dispossession, withholding, withdrawal …
5deprivation — noun /dɛp.ɹɪ.veɪʃən/ a) The act of depriving, dispossessing, or bereaving; the act of deposing or divesting of some dignity. He was suffering from deprivation of sleep. b) The state of being deprived; privation; loss; want; bereavement …
6deprivation — mid 15c., removal from office or position, from M.L. deprivationem (nom. deprivatio), noun of action from pp. stem of deprivare (see DEPRIVE (Cf. deprive)) …
7deprivation — noun 1 (countable usually plural) something you need or usually have that you are prevented from having: People suffered terrible deprivations during the war. 2 (U) a lack of something that you need or want: Sleep deprivation can result in mental …
8deprivation — noun Date: 15th century 1. the state of being deprived ; privation; especially removal from an office, dignity, or benefice 2. an act or instance of depriving ; loss …
9deprivation — UK [ˌdeprɪˈveɪʃ(ə)n] / US noun Word forms deprivation : singular deprivation plural deprivations 1) [uncountable] a situation in which people do not have basic things that they need to live a comfortable life social deprivation 2)… …
10deprivation — dep|ri|va|tion [ ,deprı veıʃn ] noun 1. ) uncount a situation in which people do not have basic things that they need to live a comfortable life: social deprivation 2. ) count or uncount a situation in which you do not have something that you… …
