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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 pauperism
 有被救濟的資格;貧窮

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Pau·per·ism n.  The state of being a pauper; the state of indigent persons requiring support from the community.
 Syn: -- Poverty; indigence; penury; want; need; destitution. See Poverty.
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From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 pauperism
      n : a state of extreme poverty or destitution; "their indigence
          appalled him"; "a general state of need exists among the
          homeless" [syn: indigence, need, penury, beggary,
           pauperization]