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Noun: privation  prI'vey-shun
  1. A state of extreme poverty
    - want, deprivation, neediness
     
  2. Act of depriving someone of food or money or rights
    "nutritional privation"
    - deprivation

Derived forms: privations

Type of: impoverishment, poorness, poverty, social control

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