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What does destitution mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word destitution? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. (obsolete) The action of deserting or abandoning.
  2. (now rare) Discharge from office; dismissal.
  3. The condition of lacking something.
  4. An extreme state of poverty, in which a person is almost completely lacking in resources or means of support.
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They also praised the expansion of the activities of the institutions in the social sector and micro-credit, as a vehicle of easing destitution.
Never had I seen human beings so clad, or rather so unclad, in such amazing squalidness and destitution of garments.
More than two million other people from Darfur are in extreme destitution, immediately requiring aid.
They are by far the largest group amongst the fifth of India's population who live in extreme poverty and destitution.
If in two months stories of starvation and destitution continue to emerge out of Aceh, severe criticism will rain down on the government.
They live in destitution while the land yields billions of dollars annually to the people who took it away.

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