poor

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UK /pɔː(r)/US /pʊr/

Meaning

adjective
having very little money; not having enough money for basic needs
They were too poor to buy shoes for the kids.

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I was also an early writer, and when I began to write, at about the age of seven, stories in pencil with crayon illustrations that my poor mother was obligated to read,

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They had been poor themselves.

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