indigent
lacking food, clothing, and other necessities of life because of poverty; needy; poor; impoverished.
Archaic.
deficient in what is requisite.
destitute (usually followed by of).
a person who is indigent.
Origin of indigent
1Other words for indigent
Other words from indigent
- in·di·gent·ly, adverb
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How to use indigent in a sentence
Each month, the agency sends lists of the eligible attorneys on each panel to the courthouses so clerks can base assignments for indigent defendants on them.
Lawyers Who Were Ineligible to Handle Serious Criminal Charges Were Given Thousands of These Cases Anyway | by Samantha Hogan, The Maine Monitor, and Agnel Philip, ProPublica | February 23, 2021 | ProPublicaIn the late 19th century, dying at a hospital was reserved for indigents, the people who had nothing and no one.
No one in the county’s indigent health care program was looking to revamp the system or to invest in telehealth at the time, he said.
The COVID-19 Charmer: How a Self-Described Felon Convinced Elected Officials to Try to Help Him Profit From the Pandemic | by Vianna Davila, Jeremy Schwartz and Lexi Churchill | September 25, 2020 | ProPublicaHe said his company’s services, which included remote patient monitoring, could ultimately reduce the county’s indigent care costs.
The COVID-19 Charmer: How a Self-Described Felon Convinced Elected Officials to Try to Help Him Profit From the Pandemic | by Vianna Davila, Jeremy Schwartz and Lexi Churchill | September 25, 2020 | ProPublicaHays County has a contract with the hospital to provide the county’s indigent care.
The COVID-19 Charmer: How a Self-Described Felon Convinced Elected Officials to Try to Help Him Profit From the Pandemic | by Vianna Davila, Jeremy Schwartz and Lexi Churchill | September 25, 2020 | ProPublica
The lawyers of ArchCity Defenders specialize in representing the indigent and the homeless.
Ferguson Feeds Off the Poor: Three Warrants a Year Per Household | Michael Daly | August 22, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIn addition, many Texans believed that the role of helping the indigent belonged to the church.
She emphasizes that the indigent detainees who will benefit from this program are not all undocumented.
New York City Letting Immigrants Lawyer Up for Free | Caitlin Dickson | June 26, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTFor instance, minority doctors are more likely to go on to work among indigent or underserved populations after medical school.
With Arsenio Hall Out, Late Night Becomes All White and Male—and So What? | Keli Goff | June 2, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTHerrera is seeking to have the city reimbursed for its care of indigent patients it claims were dumped there by Nevada.
Nevada Sued for ‘Greyhound Therapy’ for Mentally Ill Patients | John L. Smith | September 23, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTWe make fast the doors of our lighted houses against the indigent and the hungry.
The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice | Stephen LeacockThe indigent Jakut exchanges his most valuable furs and skins for a few ounces of the "Circassian weed."
Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce | E. R. Billings.And to make good infantry, it requireth men bred, not in a servile or indigent fashion, but in some free and plentiful manner.
Landholding In England | Joseph FisherJohn Porteous was born of indigent parents near the city of Edinburgh; and he served his time as an apprentice to a tailor.
The Chronicles of Crime or The New Newgate Calendar. v. 1/2 | Camden PelhamRail not at a guest, nor from thy gate thrust him; treat well the indigent; they will speak well of thee.
The Elder Eddas of Saemund Sigfusson; and the Younger Eddas of Snorre Sturleson | Saemund Sigfusson and Snorre Sturleson
British Dictionary definitions for indigent
/ (ˈɪndɪdʒənt) /
so poor as to lack even necessities; very needy
(usually foll by of) archaic lacking (in) or destitute (of)
an impoverished person
Origin of indigent
1Derived forms of indigent
- indigence, noun
- indigently, adverb
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