{
    "term": "poverty",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "b1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "the state of being poor",
            "sensetop": "in poverty",
            "labels": "(US English)(British English)(North American English)",
            "cefr": "b1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "conditions of **extreme/abject poverty**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "to **alleviate poverty**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Many elderly people live in poverty.",
                    "contextForm": "in poverty"
                },
                {
                    "text": "For him music was the way out of poverty."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She was born into poverty and political chaos."
                },
                {
                    "text": "More than 1.5 million Americans fell into poverty last year."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The government is aiming to reduce **child poverty** *(= the number of children living below the poverty line)*."
                },
                {
                    "text": "to tackle/combat/fight poverty"
                },
                {
                    "text": "to escape/flee poverty"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Most of the population lives in grinding poverty."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a plan to eradicate urban poverty"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Land reform would help to alleviate rural poverty."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Money", "Social issues"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["abject", "absolute", "extreme"],
                "verb + poverty": ["alleviate", "combat", "fight"],
                "poverty + noun": ["trap", "rate", "reduction"],
                "preposition": ["in poverty", "poverty  among", "poverty  of"],
                "phrases": [
                    "above/​below/​under the poverty level",
                    "above/​below/​under the poverty line",
                    "at the poverty level"
                ]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "a lack of something; poor quality",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "There is a poverty of colour in her work."
                },
                {
                    "text": "His work displays a poverty of imagination."
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈpɒvəti/",
                "audio": "po/poverty/poverty__gb_2.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈpɑːvərti/",
                "audio": "po/poverty/poverty__us_3.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Middle English: from Old French poverte, from Latin paupertas, from pauper ‘poor’."
}