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pauperize 中文解釋 wordnet sense Collocation Usage Collins Definition
  1. beggar: reduce to beggary
  2. (pauperization) indigence: a state of extreme poverty or destitution; "their indigence appalled him"; "a general state of need exists among the homeless"
  3. (pauperization) the act of making someone poor
  4. To make someone a pauper; to impoverish
  5. (Pauperization) Literally, to make a pauper of, or impoverish. Marx used the term to describe the process by which the working class grows increasingly impoverished in relation to the capitalist class.
  6. (Pauperization) A Marxist term that refers to the belief that capitalism could only survive by driving down wages and increasing the exploitation of the workers. This continual impoverishment of the workers would create the conditions necessary for a social revolution.