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Definition: Poverty Level |
Poverty LevelNoun1. 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 LevelSynonym: poverty line (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Poverty Level |
| Specialty definitions using "poverty level": Income-to-poverty ratios ♦ Reduced price lunch ♦ School Breakfast Program. (references) |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
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. | ||
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
federal poverty level | 122 |
poverty level | 119 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 6F 76 65 72 74 79      4C 65 76 65 6C |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01101111 01110110 01100101 01110010 01110100 01111001 00100000 01001100 01100101 01110110 01100101 01101100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P o v e r t y   L e v e l |
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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