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きゅうぼう

nounnoun (generic)noun or participle taking the aux. verb するintransitive verb

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Meanings

poverty, destitution, privation, indigence, penury

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Example sentences

戦後せんご窮乏きゅうぼう生活せいかつ経験けいけんした世代せだいは、もの大切たいせつにする。

The generation that experienced postwar destitution is careful not to waste food.

長引ながび不況ふきょうにより、おおくの家庭かてい窮乏きゅうぼうおちいった。

Due to the prolonged recession, many households fell into poverty.

かれ事業じぎょう失敗しっぱいし、一家いっか窮乏きゅうぼうした時期じきもあった。

He failed in his business, and there was a period when his entire family was in dire poverty.

窮乏きゅうぼうしていたわかころ記憶きおくが、彼女かのじょ倹約けんやく精神せいしんはぐくんだ。

The memories of her youth spent in privation nurtured her frugal spirit.

政府せいふ国民こくみん窮乏きゅうぼうふせぐため、緊急きんきゅう経済けいざい支援しえんさくした。

The government put forward emergency economic relief measures to prevent the impoverishment of its citizens.