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Another word for indigent

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indigent

modif.

needy, impoverished, poverty-stricken; see poor 1. See syn. study at poor.

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Another word for indigent

adjective

Having little or no money or wealth:

beggarly, destitute, down-and-out, impecunious, impoverished, necessitous, needy, penniless, penurious, poor, poverty-stricken. (Informal) broke, strapped. Idioms: hard up, on one's uppers. See rich

noun

An impoverished person:

beggar, down-and-out, down-and-outer, have-not, pauper. See rich

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He compelled the wealthy to share their riches with the indigent and helpless and to make them their equals in respect of all the comforts and conditions of life.
Early as 1710 public school education was provided for indigent children.
Many workhouses have been established for indigent persons capable of work.
In 1851 a compromise measure was substituted, increasing the state appropriation to $800,000 and exempting indigent parents from the " rate bill," which was finally abolished in 1867.
Immediately north of Poughkeepsie is the Hudson River State Hospital for the Insane (1871); in the city are the Vassar Brothers' Hospital (1878), with which a nurses' training school is connected; the Vassar Brothers' Home (1881) for aged and infirm men; the Poughkeepsie Orphan House and Home for the Friendless (1847); the Old Ladies' Home (1870); the Pringle Memorial Home (1899), for aged and indigent men, and the Adriance Memorial Library (45,000 volumes in 1909).

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