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Poverty Level

Definition: Poverty Level

Poverty Level

Noun

1. A level of personal income defining the state of poverty.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonym: Poverty Level

Synonym: poverty line (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Poverty Level

Specialty definitions using "poverty level": Income-to-poverty ratiosReduced price lunchSchool Breakfast Program. (references)

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Non-Fiction Usage: Poverty Level

SubjectTopicQuote

Business

Most of the thousands of new jobs created pay no more than $300 a month, creating a mass to people living near the poverty level. (references)

Human Rights

Congo

There is a system of bail called a "caution"; however, more than 70 percent of the population has an income below poverty level and usually cannot afford to pay the "caution" deposit. (references)

Political Economy

Kyrgyz Republic

Sixty percent of the population live below the poverty level. (references)

Georgia

According to the Department of Statistics, approximately 52.6 percent of the population live below the poverty level. (references)

Women

Belarus

Of employees with higher or specialized secondary education between two-thirds and three-fourths (mostly women) live beneath the official poverty level. (references)

Switzerland

A federal marriage law provides that in the event of a divorce, assets accumulated during the marriage will be divided equally; however, the Supreme Court ruled that the primary wage earner must be left with sufficient income to remain above the poverty level. (references)

Worker Rights

Jordan

A study completed by the Ministry of Labor in July 1999 found that 18.7 percent of the population lived at or below the poverty level and that 1.5 percent lived in "abject" poverty, defined by the Government as $58 (40.5 dinars) per month for a family with 7.5 members. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Poverty Level

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

federal poverty level

122

poverty level

119
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: Poverty Level

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-e-e-l-l-o-p-r-t-v-v-y"

-4 letters: velveret, volleyer.

-5 letters: evolver, leveler, leveret, loverly, overlet, overply, overtly, peytrel, poverty, protyle, replete, replevy, revolve, trolley, velvety.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Poverty Level


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

50 6F 76 65 72 74 79      4C 65 76 65 6C

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010000 01101111 01110110 01100101 01110010 01110100 01111001 00100000 01001100 01100101 01110110 01100101 01101100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#80 &#111 &#118 &#101 &#114 &#116 &#121 &#32 &#76 &#101 &#118 &#101 &#108

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 006F 0076 0065 0072 0074 0079      004C 0065 0076 0065 006C

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

5081887184869124671887178

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Quotations: Non-fiction
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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