antipoverty

[ an-tee-pov-er-tee, an-tahy- ]

/ ˌæn tiˈpɒv ər ti, ˌæn taɪ- /

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adjective

designed or directed to reduce or abolish poverty (used especially in describing certain governmental programs).

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Origin of antipoverty

anti- + poverty

Words nearby antipoverty

Antipodes Islands, antipoetic, antipole, antipollution, antipope, antipoverty, antiproliferation, antiproliferative, antiproton, antipruritic, antipsychiatry

How to use antipoverty in a sentence

She was an early critic of the Vietnam War and spent years tirelessly maintaining a collective farming venture she founded to serve as an antipoverty program for her fellow Mississippians.
What Fannie Lou Hamer can teach today’s activists|Kenneth Mack|November 19, 2021|Washington Post
She had gone to work in the charity sector and in 2010, sitting in the open-plan office of the antipoverty nonprofit Oxfam in Oxford, she came across a diagram.
Amsterdam Is Embracing a Radical New Economic Theory to Help Save the Environment. Could It Also Replace Capitalism?|Ciara Nugent|January 22, 2021|Time
He had supported Kennedy in 1960 and since then had impressed him with his economic and antipoverty programs.
‘It Will Not Be Lyndon’: Why JFK Wanted to Drop LBJ for Reelection|Thurston Clarke|November 18, 2013|DAILY BEAST