poverty

UK: /ˈpɒv.ə.ti/ US: /ˈpɑː.və`.ºi/

Translation

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⇨ pobreza

›to live in abject poverty

vivir en la miseria absoluta

a poverty of sth (form)

⇨ una carencia de algo

Véase tb: grinding poverty

(Definition of poverty n from the Diccionario Cambridge Compact English-Spanish © Cambridge University Press and Ediciones SM 2011)

to do something that spoils someone's plans

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