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pri·va·tion
(prī-vā′shən)n.
1.
a. Lack of the basic necessities or comforts of life: living in times of privation.
b. An act, condition, or result of deprivation or loss: endured the privations of war.
2. The condition of being without a specified quality or attribute: the privation of liberty.
[Middle English privacion, from Old French privation, from Latin prīvātiō, prīvātiōn-, from prīvātus, past participle of prīvāre, to deprive; see private.]
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privation
(praɪˈveɪʃən)n
1. loss or lack of the necessities of life, such as food and shelter
2. hardship resulting from this
3. the state of being deprived
4. (Logic) logic obsolete the absence from an object of what ordinarily or naturally belongs to such objects
[C14: from Latin prīvātiō deprivation]
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pri•va•tion
(praɪˈveɪ ʃən)n.
1. lack of the usual comforts or necessaries of life.
2. an instance of this.
3. the act of depriving.
4. the state of being deprived.
[1350–1400; Middle English (< Middle French) < Medieval Latin prīvātiō deprivation (of office), Latin: removal (of a condition). See private, -tion]
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Noun | 1. | privation - a state of extreme poverty impoverishment, poorness, poverty - the state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions |
2. | privation - act of depriving someone of food or money or rights; "nutritional privation"; "deprivation of civil rights" social control - control exerted (actively or passively) by group action starving, starvation - the act of depriving of food or subjecting to famine; "the besiegers used starvation to induce surrender"; "they were charged with the starvation of children in their care" |
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privation
noun (Formal) want, poverty, need, suffering, loss, lack, distress, misery, necessity, hardship, penury, destitution, neediness, indigence They endured years of privation during the war.
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privation
noun1. The condition of being extremely poor:
2. The condition of being deprived of what one once had or ought to have:
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Translations
فَقْر، فاقَه، عَوَز
nedostateknouze
fattigdom
skortur
grūtībastrūkums
privation
[praɪˈveɪʃən] NCollins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005
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privation
n
(= hardship) → Entbehrung f, → Einschränkung f; to suffer many privations → viele Entbehrungen erleiden; wartime privations → die Entbehrungen pl → der Kriegszeit
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privation
(praiˈveiʃən) noun poverty; hardship.
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privation
n. privación, necesidad.
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