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poverty line

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

The threshold of poverty, below which one's income does not cover necessities.

Equivalents

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Examples

“America’s poverty line is $63 a day for a family of four. In the richer parts of the emerging world $4 a day is the poverty barrier. But poverty’s scourge is fiercest below $1.25 (the average of the 15 poorest countries’ own⟳ poverty lines, measured in 2005 dollars and adjusted for differences in purchasing power): people below that level live⟳ lives that are poor, nasty, brutish and short.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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