immiseration
C2CEFR level
90/100Rarity: very rare
TechnicalRegister
General noun
The process of making someone economically impoverished or increasingly wretched.
Critics argued that the austerity programme accelerated the immiseration of the very communities it claimed to help.
Business noun
The progressive impoverishment of a class or population.
Marx predicted the growing immiseration of workers under unchecked capital accumulation.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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