noun
- the process of becoming poor or being reduced to poverty; the state of being impoverished
Examples
- The pauperization of rural communities accelerated during the industrial revolution.
- Economic policies that led to pauperization sparked widespread social unrest.
- Historians studied the pauperization of the working class in 19th-century Europe.
- The war resulted in the pauperization of entire regions.
- Globalization has been blamed for the pauperization of some manufacturing towns.
- Social safety nets were designed to prevent the pauperization of vulnerable populations.