Indigente in english
Indigent
pronunciation: ɪndɪdʒənt part of speech: adjective
pronunciation: ɪndɪdʒənt part of speech: adjective
In gestures
indigente = needy ; poverty-stricken ; impecunious ; indigent ; destitute ; vagrant ; bag lady ; pauper ; shopping-bag lady ; bagwoman ; bagman ; necessitous.
Example: By definition, these are benefits, often in cash, which the state has decided are required by various needy categories of its citizens.Example: The British Museum Reading Room is filled with cranks, hacks, poverty-stricken scholars who cherish their hobby.Example: Despite its impecunious state and lack of a home until 1928, the UK Library Association remained confident about the future of libraries and librarianship.Example: These indigents, known to the public as tramps & skid row winos, are very visible & more likely to be arrested for drunkenness & other petty offenses than a person with a permanent home.Example: The clarity of his drawings contrasts sharply with the total alienation in which he lived as a destitute mental patient with a diagnosis of paranoid schizophrenia.Example: This paper outlines the problems caused by vagrants who use public libraries as a refuge.Example: A sample of New York City's vagrant females were interviewed in the main bag lady territory in Manhattan.Example: Gavarni's illustrations of waifs, paupers, and beggars were later published separately, with captions added by the artist.Example: Shopping-bag ladies do not overtly beg, but they do not refuse what is offered.Example: I've always been afraid of somehow winding up as a bagwoman in the streets.Example: His hand went to the pistol in his belt as he turned and found a ragged, filthy bagman looking up at him from beneath a blanket of newspapers.Example: The design of this institution is, as far as their funds will admit, to prevent mendicity, and to relieve beggars, and especially other necessitous poor.more:
» albergue para indigentes = poorhouse .
Example: The article 'The public library - paperback palace or poorhouse?' discusses the factors which have caused South African public libraries to review their paperback purchasing policies.» indigentes, los = destitute, the .
Example: The author examines 17th-18th-c. writings on the treatment of the destitute.