poor
adjective
having little or no money, goods, or other means of support.
nonpoor
-
a word derived from
poor.
Example Sentences
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Even for the nonpoor, the cost of housing over the past four decades has risen faster than wages.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 16, 2023
Longitudinal research has demonstrated that children who grew up poor were twice as likely as nonpoor counterparts to report poor overall health and high levels of stress.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 7, 2022
With tight budgets, limited prospects and a poverty line set so low that many nonpoor families still experience hardship, the success they embody may seem modest.
From New York Times ● Sep. 12, 2022
There’s a new paper from some economists at Hopkins looking at New York data that finds that an awful lot of the benefits go to nonpoor households in pretty expensive neighborhoods.
From Slate ● Feb. 18, 2022
What is harder for the nonpoor to see is poverty as acute distress: The lunch that consists of Doritos or hot dog rolls, leading to faintness before the end of the shift.
From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich
