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Learn to pronounce dep·ri·va·tion

/ˌdeprəˈvāSH(ə)n/
noun
the damaging lack of material benefits considered to be basic necessities in a society.
"low wages mean that 3.75 million people suffer serious deprivation"
synonyms: poverty, impoverishment, penury, privation, hardship, destitution, need, neediness, want, distress, financial distress, indigence, pauperdom, beggary, ruin, reduced circumstances, straitened circumstances, hand-to-mouth existence, pauperism, pauperization, impecuniousness, impecuniosity

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