deprivation, lack

deprivation:

N-VAR : oft supp N.

If you suffer deprivation, you do not have or are prevented from having something that you want or need.

• Millions more suffer from serious sleep deprivation caused by long work hours.
  

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Noun	1.	deprivation - a state of extreme poverty           neediness, privation, want impoverishment, poorness, poverty - the state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions
	2.	deprivation - the disadvantage that results from losing something; "his loss of credibility led to his resignation"; "losing him is no great deprivation" loss disadvantage - the quality of having an inferior or less favorable position
	3.	deprivation - act of depriving someone of food or money or rights; "nutritional privation"; "deprivation of civil rights" privation social control - control exerted (actively or passively) by group action pauperisation, pauperization, impoverishment - the act of making someone poor starving, starvation - the act of depriving of food or subjecting to famine; "the besiegers used starvation to induce surrender"; "they were charged with the starvation of children in their care"

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deprivation

noun 1. lack, denial, withdrawal, removal, expropriation, divestment, dispossession, deprival

noun 2. want, need, hardship, suffering, distress, disadvantage, oppression, detriment, privation, destitution

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lack:

1. N-UNCOUNT : also a N, usu N of n

If there is a lack of something, there is not enough of it or it does not exist at all.

• Despite his lack of experience, he got the job.    
• The charges were dropped for lack of evidence.     
• There is a lack of people wanting to start up new businesses.

2. VERB.

If you say that someone or something lacks a particular quality or that a particular quality is lacking in them, you mean that they do not have any or enough of it.

• He lacked the judgment and political acumen for the post of chairman.     
• Certain vital information is lacking in the report.

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Noun	1.	lack - the state of needing something that is absent or unavailable; "there is a serious lack of insight into the problem"; "water is the critical deficiency in desert regions"; "for want of a nail the shoe was lost" deficiency, want absence - the state of being absent; "he was surprised by the absence of any explanation" need, demand - a condition requiring relief; "she satisfied his need for affection"; "God has no need of men to accomplish His work"; "there is a demand for jobs" dearth, famine, shortage - an acute insufficiency deficit - a deficiency or failure in neurological or mental functioning; "the people concerned have a deficit in verbal memory"; "they have serious linguistic deficits" mineral deficiency - lack of a mineral micronutrient that is essential for normal nutrition or metabolism shortness - the condition of being short of something; "there was no shortness of money"; "can cause shortness of breath" stringency, tightness - a state occasioned by scarcity of money and a shortage of credit
Verb	1.	lack - be without; "This soup lacks salt"; "There is something missing in my jewelry box!" miss want - be without, lack; be deficient in; "want courtesy"; "want the strength to go on living"; "flood victims wanting food and shelter" exclude - lack or fail to include; "The cost for the trip excludes food and beverages"

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