pauperization
- a word derived from pauperize.
Example Sentences
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I don't like to shop at Wal-Mart but sometimes I can't afford not to and thereby support the continued pauperization of my fellow workers.
From New York Times ● Feb. 9, 2013
Since Algeria is unable at present to feed more than 3,000,000 people, the result has been mass pauperization.
From Time Magazine Archive
A new tax, he explained, meant a further step in the pauperization of the masses.
From A Little Garrison A Realistic Novel of German Army Life of To-day by Bilse, Fritz Oswald
Wherever I have found one of my old workmen in need, and I have looked personally into the matter, I have provided for him fully, short of pauperization.
From Through the Eye of the Needle A Romance by Howells, William Dean
By forfeitures, consequent poverty and ultimate pauperization, many of the Lombard stock lost their rank and their lands and entered the same state of vassalage with the great body of the people.
From The Communes of Lombardy from the VI. to the X. Century An Investigation of the Causes Which Led to the Development Of Municipal Unity Among the Lombard Communes. by Williams, William Klapp
