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Noun: pauperization
  1. A state of extreme poverty or destitution
    - indigence, need, penury, pauperism
     
  2. The act of making someone poor
    - pauperisation [Brit], impoverishment

Derived forms: pauperizations

See also: pauperize

Type of: deprivation, impoverishment, poorness, poverty, privation