income-poor

adjective

Suffering from income poverty.

Meanings

adjectiveincome-poor (comparative more income-poor, superlative most income-poor)

comparative more income-poor · superlative most income-poor

  1. Suffering from income poverty.

    Farmers may be "asset rich" but in times of drought and falling commodity prices they are "income poor".

    1983 April 6, The Tribune, Sydney, page 8, column 4
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