indigency
State of need
Indigency is the state of being indigent—extremely poor, lacking basic necessities.
The word appears mainly in legal and administrative contexts: The court appointed counsel due to the defendant's indigency.
It's more formal than poverty, often implying eligibility for public assistance or fee waivers.
institutional
Institution housing poor laborers
- almshouseCharitable home for poor
- poorhouseShelter for the destitute
- asylumShelter from persecution
- welfareComfort and prosperity
public assistance · relief · social services · shelter · hospice · orphanage · destitution · pauperism
workhouse
Institution housing poor laborers
welfare · public assistance · relief · social services · shelter · hospice · orphanage · destitution · pauperism · pauperization
- indigenous landLand of original peoples
- indigenous healingNative cultures' health practices
- indigenous culturesOriginal inhabitants' ways of life
- indigenous artCreations by original peoples
- indigenous peopleOriginal regional inhabitants
- indigenous groupOriginal inhabitants of a place