Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The act or an instance of depriving; loss.
- n. The condition of being deprived; privation.
- n. A removal of rank or office.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The act of depriving; a taking away.
- n. The state of being deprived; loss; want; bereavement.
- n. Degradation from office, rank, or position; deposition: now used chiefly of the deposition of a bishop or other clergyman. This is of two kinds: deprivation a beneficio, or deprivation of living or preferment; and deprivation ab officio, or deprivation of order, otherwise called
deposition or degradation.
Wiktionary
- n. The act of depriving, dispossessing, or bereaving; the act of deposing or divesting of some dignity.
- n. The state of being deprived; privation; loss; want; bereavement.
- n. The taking away from a clergyman his benefice, or other spiritual promotion or dignity.
- n. lack.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The act of depriving, dispossessing, or bereaving; the act of deposing or divesting of some dignity.
- n. The state of being deprived; privation; loss; want; bereavement.
- n. the taking away from a clergyman his benefice, or other spiritual promotion or dignity.
WordNet 3.0
- n. act of depriving someone of food or money or rights
- n. a state of extreme poverty
- n. the disadvantage that results from losing something
Examples
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“Lief and Zarin-Ackerman 1980 noted synonyms for the term deprivation: “disadvantaged, high risk, culturally poor, disorganized and crisis oriented.””
“For the woman denied access, the deprivation is absolute: Either a woman can get a safe and legal abortion, or she cannot.”
Obama's nominee for Office of Legal Counsel: pregnancy is slavery
“Sleep deprivation is torture – I knew those all nighters at the law firm were human rights abuses!!!”
“These numbers are likely to change somewhat as Census refines its measure, but they need to change quite a bit to be consistent with what most data tells us about geographic differences in deprivation, and what state-level social and economic policies work best in reducing poverty.”
“Sure, the idea of curing sleep deprivation is all right, but what happens if the user has claustrophobia?”
“Gross overconsumption of material benefits by foreign interlopers in a community suffering deprivation is an exquisitely perfect sin and the subject of much ironic humor.”
“If so, do you think reading deprivation is crucial in finding our own voice?”
“On how much sleep deprivation is too much, the guidelines said 180 hours provided that all the other conditions are met.”
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“Sleep deprivation is currently my middle name, so to speak.”
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