See poverty line in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
Download JSON data for poverty line meaning in English (3.3kB)
{
"forms": [
{
"form": "poverty lines",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "poverty line (plural poverty lines)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations",
"parents": [
"Terms with redundant transliterations",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Economics",
"orig": "en:Economics",
"parents": [
"Social sciences",
"Sciences",
"Society",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2013 June 1, “Towards the end of poverty”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8838, page 11",
"text": "America’s poverty line is $63 a day for a family of four. In the richer parts of the emerging world $4 a day is the poverty barrier. But poverty’s scourge is fiercest below $1.25 (the average of the 15 poorest countries’ own poverty lines, measured in 2005 dollars and adjusted for differences in purchasing power): people below that level live lives that are poor, nasty, brutish and short.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"The threshold of poverty, below which one's income does not cover necessities."
],
"id": "en-poverty_line-en-noun-5zmiajT5",
"links": [
[
"economics",
"economics"
],
[
"threshold",
"threshold"
],
[
"poverty",
"poverty"
],
[
"income",
"income"
],
[
"necessities",
"necessity"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(economics) The threshold of poverty, below which one's income does not cover necessities."
],
"related": [
{
"word": "breadline"
}
],
"topics": [
"economics",
"science",
"sciences"
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "threshold of poverty",
"word": "貧困線"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "pínkùnxiàn",
"sense": "threshold of poverty",
"word": "贫困线"
},
{
"code": "et",
"lang": "Estonian",
"sense": "threshold of poverty",
"word": "vaesuspiir"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "threshold of poverty",
"word": "köyhyysraja"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "threshold of poverty",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "seuil de pauvreté"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "threshold of poverty",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Armutsgrenze"
},
{
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "xatt-e faqr",
"sense": "threshold of poverty",
"word": "خط فقر"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "threshold of poverty",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "granica ubóstwa"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "čertá bédnosti",
"sense": "threshold of poverty",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "черта́ бе́дности"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "threshold of poverty",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "línea de pobreza"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "threshold of poverty",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "umbral de pobreza"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "threshold of poverty",
"word": "fattigdomsgräns"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "meža bidnosti",
"sense": "threshold of poverty",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "межа бідності"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"poverty threshold"
]
}
],
"word": "poverty line"
}
{
"forms": [
{
"form": "poverty lines",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "poverty line (plural poverty lines)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"related": [
{
"word": "breadline"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English multiword terms",
"English nouns",
"English terms with quotations",
"Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations",
"en:Economics"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2013 June 1, “Towards the end of poverty”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8838, page 11",
"text": "America’s poverty line is $63 a day for a family of four. In the richer parts of the emerging world $4 a day is the poverty barrier. But poverty’s scourge is fiercest below $1.25 (the average of the 15 poorest countries’ own poverty lines, measured in 2005 dollars and adjusted for differences in purchasing power): people below that level live lives that are poor, nasty, brutish and short.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"The threshold of poverty, below which one's income does not cover necessities."
],
"links": [
[
"economics",
"economics"
],
[
"threshold",
"threshold"
],
[
"poverty",
"poverty"
],
[
"income",
"income"
],
[
"necessities",
"necessity"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(economics) The threshold of poverty, below which one's income does not cover necessities."
],
"topics": [
"economics",
"science",
"sciences"
],
"wikipedia": [
"poverty threshold"
]
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "threshold of poverty",
"word": "貧困線"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "pínkùnxiàn",
"sense": "threshold of poverty",
"word": "贫困线"
},
{
"code": "et",
"lang": "Estonian",
"sense": "threshold of poverty",
"word": "vaesuspiir"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "threshold of poverty",
"word": "köyhyysraja"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "threshold of poverty",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "seuil de pauvreté"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "threshold of poverty",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Armutsgrenze"
},
{
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "xatt-e faqr",
"sense": "threshold of poverty",
"word": "خط فقر"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "threshold of poverty",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "granica ubóstwa"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "čertá bédnosti",
"sense": "threshold of poverty",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "черта́ бе́дности"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "threshold of poverty",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "línea de pobreza"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "threshold of poverty",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "umbral de pobreza"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "threshold of poverty",
"word": "fattigdomsgräns"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "meža bidnosti",
"sense": "threshold of poverty",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "межа бідності"
}
],
"word": "poverty line"
}
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.