GC: n

S: WB – https://bit.ly/2Wviz1w (last access: 1 February 2019); OECD – https://bit.ly/1kgI6ao (last access: 4 September 2014).

N: 1. – poverty (n): late 12c., from Old French poverte “poverty, misery, wretched condition” (Modern French pauvreté), from Latin paupertatem (nominative paupertas). “poverty,” from pauper “poor”. Poverty line attested from 1901; poverty trap from 1966; poverty-stricken from 1803.
– line (n): A Middle English merger of Old English line “cable, rope; series, row, row of letters; rule, direction,” and Old French ligne “guideline, cord, string; lineage, descent” (12c.), both from Latin linea “linen thread, string, plumb-line,” also “a mark, bound, limit, goal; line of descent,” short for linea restis “linen cord,” and similar phrases, from fem. of lineus (adj.) “of linen,” from linum “linen”.

2. A level of personal or family income below which one is classified as poor according to governmental standards.

3. Collocation: poverty line.

S: 1. OED – https://bit.ly/2DOvioL (last access: 1 February 2019). 2. MW – https://bit.ly/2G2l3PU (last access: 1 February 2019). 3. OD – https://bit.ly/2RqMT9T (last access: 15 May 2015).

SYN: poverty level

S: MW – https://bit.ly/2G2l3PU (last access: 1 February 2019)

CR: inequalities, misery, poverty, underprivileged.