Synonym: loss, neediness, privation, want. Similar words: private property, the private sector, motivation, private, captivation, deprecation, privately, depreciation. Meaning: [‚deprɪ'veɪʃn] n. 1. a state of extreme poverty 2. the disadvantage that results from losing something 3. act of depriving someone of food or money or rights.
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31 Various policy initiatives have addressed the question of how to reverse the decay, deprivation and industrial degeneration of a century.
32 Economic deprivation has increased both petty and violent crimes, turning some cities into murder capitals.
33 Conversely, in motivating individuals to leave or withdraw, relative deprivation of individual rewards is a major influence.
34 He avoids mentioning Home Office research that suggests that there is a relationship between deprivation and crime.
35 Her deprivation had been not having any dreams of her own at all.
36 There is therefore a sense of relative deprivation among Shetlanders.
37 No human being can do this for long; experiments in sensory deprivation have shown this clearly enough.
38 Do not the problems of the third world, which is still suffering economic deprivation, need to be addressed?
39 Suppose we think of individuals which are reared throughout their lives in a situation where there is sensory deprivation.
40 Grief, loneliness, poor health, financial worries,[Sentencedict.com ] social deprivation all contribute to a feeling of acute depression.
41 Comparing themselves with that mythical family, everyone ends up with feelings of relative deprivation.
42 Through the development of community services and a decentralised, non-bureaucratic welfare state, we can lift people out of poverty and deprivation.
43 So the decline continued until parts of our cities were ghettos of deprivation, unemployment, poor housing and social exclusion.
44 Today's elderly experienced great hardship and deprivation during their formative years.
45 That is, where unskilled labour prevailed there was chronic want and deprivation.
46 They were officially internees, rather than prisoners, and life, although monotonous and full of deprivation, was not brutal.
47 There is therefore a clear relationship between deprivation and crime.
48 Racism is a tragedy beyond socioeconomic deprivation; it speaks of the total deprivation of the church today.
49 But it said that to get at the root of the problem the Government had to tackle the whole issue of deprivation.
50 The scale of deprivation and the constraints on mobility within these cores should not, however, be exaggerated.
51 It may lead to a considerable degree of social deprivation and a miserable existence for the families involved.
52 The rock-and-roll and sleep deprivation, the chair(sentencedict.com), even leaving me out in the corridor to hear the screams.
53 In short, unemployment must be considered as the primary agent causing and maintaining urban deprivation.
54 We have seen then two very different conceptions of poverty, that of subsistence and of deprivation.
55 The deprivation had been the loss of her father, the constant loss of friends and contacts.
56 New York has substantially worse infant and neonatal mortality than London or Paris and some signs of worse problems of social deprivation.
57 The effects of sleep deprivation appear to reduce mental and physical functioning.
58 The results provide a new perspective on the association between area deprivation indicators and population health.
59 Complex and difficult lives are simplified into iconic statements of social deprivation.
60 In chapter 7 Murphy shows that net of many other factors local authority tenants still experience added deprivation.
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