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beggary

English

  1. 🔊 a solicitation for money or food (especially in the street by an apparently penniless person)
  2. 🔊 the state of being a beggar or mendicant
    “they were reduced to mendicancy”

Similar words

begging mendicancy mendicancy mendicity absence bare cupboard bare subsistence beggarliness begging bumming cadging defectiveness deficiency deficit deprivation destitution drought empty purse famine grinding poverty gripe hand-to-mouth existence homelessness impecuniousness