Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Marked by deprivation, especially of economic or social necessities.
- adjective Lacking in advantage, opportunity, or experience.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective marked by deprivation especially of the necessities of life or healthful environmental or social influences.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Subject to
deprivation ;poor . - verb Past participle of
deprive
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective marked by deprivation especially of the necessities of life or healthful environmental influences
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Examples
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Civil War period, you had the white people who were terribly poor and what you call deprived now, but none of them ever knew that word and didn't have that
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Dr. LACEY: And in some cases, people even change what they eat, because many times, what you'll see in a person who's sleep deprived is they will tend to snack more on high-carb types of foods and snacks in order to kind of buttress their general energy level in an attempt to kind of self-stimulate and keep themselves more awake.
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While Clarke argued that educational reforms under the coalition government had abandoned Labour's aim to improve standards in deprived areas, the education secretary, Michael Gove, speaking at the same event, said Labour had vacated the centre ground and would find it hard to be re-elected.
Charles Clarke accuses coalition of incompetence Jo Adetunji 2010
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But more than ever we need to get kids in deprived areas – actually in any area – involved in sport.
Gareth Southgate Tom Lutz 2010
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Dr. LACEY: And in some cases, people even change what they eat, because many times, what you'll see in a person who's sleep deprived is they will tend to snack more on high-carb types of foods and snacks in order to kind of buttress their general energy level in an attempt to kind of self-stimulate and keep themselves more awake.
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Dr. LACEY: And in some cases, people even change what they eat, because many times, what you'll see in a person who's sleep deprived is they will tend to snack more on high-carb types of foods and snacks in order to kind of buttress their general energy level in an attempt to kind of self-stimulate and keep themselves more awake.
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The report praised the work of some state schools in deprived areas, which had instituted much more rigorous discipline and, as a result, had seen a marked increase in standards.
Ofsted: Schools Should Go Back to Basics Dungeekin 2009
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Dr. LACEY: And in some cases, people even change what they eat, because many times, what you'll see in a person who's sleep deprived is they will tend to snack more on high-carb types of foods and snacks in order to kind of buttress their general energy level in an attempt to kind of self-stimulate and keep themselves more awake.
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The report praised the work of some state schools in deprived areas, which had instituted much more rigorous discipline and, as a result, had seen a marked increase in standards.
Archive 2009-02-01 Dungeekin 2009
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Dr. LACEY: And in some cases, people even change what they eat, because many times, what you'll see in a person who's sleep deprived is they will tend to snack more on high-carb types of foods and snacks in order to kind of buttress their general energy level in an attempt to kind of self-stimulate and keep themselves more awake.
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