Usage examples (34)

• Let it be understood that I have a truly orthodox dread of "pauperisation," and I watch very jealously the doings of those who are anxious to feed all sorts and...
• There is this idea that he is a philosopher when actually he is representative of nothing other than the pauperisation of French intellectual life.'
• Faced with such grim economic prospects, thousands have voted with their feet, preferring the uncertainties of a new life abroad, to pauperisation at home.
• The union said the increase also reversed the recent pauperisation of workers caused by stagnant wages in an environment of rising inflation and food prices.