DEPRIVATION


Meaning of DEPRIVATION in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

economic

The greatest burdens of the war - destruction, disruption of life and economic deprivation - have fallen on the rural population.

Scant weight is given to indices of economic deprivation , such as unemployment levels and proportions of children or families in receipt of Supplementary Benefit.

Given the extent of economic deprivation , it was an impressive record.

Do not the problems of the third world, which is still suffering economic deprivation , need to be addressed?

emotional

Given their workload, cuddling or talking to children is a luxury, and emotional deprivation an inevitable outcome.

Young and far from home, they suffer from emotional deprivation and severe isolation.

maternal

This judicial readiness to sanction rescue was revised in post-war years in the light of Bowlby's work on maternal deprivation .

multiple

The indicators used are often extremely remote surrogates for true risk, and multiple deprivation is rarely treated as interactive rather than additive.

relative

They suggest therefore that greater emphasis be given to housing tenure in evaluating relative deprivation .

Comparing themselves with that mythical family, everyone ends up with feelings of relative deprivation .

Some problems of aggregation remain for the relative deprivation perspective, but the examination of groups works well for the mobilization perspective.

At the extreme this engenders a sense of relative deprivation which it is now fashionable to take as the measure of poverty.

A deprivation score was used to compare the relative deprivation or affluence of rural and urban areas.

Conversely, in motivating individuals to leave or withdraw, relative deprivation of individual rewards is a major influence.

There is therefore a sense of relative deprivation among Shetlanders.

Poverty should then perhaps best be seen more realistically in terms of relative rather than absolute deprivation .

sensory

It may be that that individual does not function normally as a consequence of the sensory deprivation .

He points out that sensory deprivation often leads to disturbances in perception and thinking.

An old-fashioned paper book for Ben - one he had specifically asked for - on sensory deprivation .

No human being can do this for long; experiments in sensory deprivation have shown this clearly enough.

There's been long term sensory deprivation , so it's not surprising.

The effect is rather like being in a sensory deprivation tank, in that you can't move or react at all.

In reality, sensory deprivation has made the horse bored silly.

Suppose we think of individuals which are reared throughout their lives in a situation where there is sensory deprivation .

severe

Paradoxically, it was the grain-surplus areas which were most at risk of severe deprivation and periodic famine.

Not all disciplinary abuses in the home are the severe deprivations or punishments that deform the lives of some children.

social

It may lead to a considerable degree of social deprivation and a miserable existence for the families involved.

Complex and difficult lives are simplified into iconic statements of social deprivation .

The inclusion of measures of social deprivation is also poorly thought out.

Despite many attempts to link drug use with social deprivation , the association is spurious.

New York has substantially worse infant and neonatal mortality than London or Paris and some signs of worse problems of social deprivation .

Many cases of mild mental handicap are thus caused by social deprivation .

Grief, loneliness, poor health, financial worries, social deprivation all contribute to a feeling of acute depression.

urban

In short, unemployment must be considered as the primary agent causing and maintaining urban deprivation .

■ NOUN

sleep

Many of the men were suffering from shell-shock, sleep deprivation and cold, he added.

The rock-and-roll and sleep deprivation , the chair, even leaving me out in the corridor to hear the screams.

The effects of sleep deprivation were therefore not simple.

During a period of sleep deprivation the effects of sleeplessness may become cumulative.

The effects of sleep deprivation appear to reduce mental and physical functioning.

An individual who has been deprived of sleep is more difficult to arouse because sleep that follows sleep deprivation is very deep.

■ VERB

suffer

The excluded black and white citizens in the urban areas seem set to continue to suffer deprivation and disadvantage.

The researchers questioned whether parents of premature infants suffered from deprivation due to their long physical separation from their hospitalized infants.

Indeed most people, however accomplished and apparently confident, suffer from praise deprivation .

Young and far from home, they suffer from emotional deprivation and severe isolation.

Do not the problems of the third world, which is still suffering economic deprivation , need to be addressed?

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

A strong musical culture survived the deprivations of slavery.

Sleep deprivation causes memory loss, paranoia, and other problems.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

An old-fashioned paper book for Ben - one he had specifically asked for - on sensory deprivation .

In each case the violation alleged by those attacking minimum wage regulation for women is deprivation of freedom of contract.

It may be that that individual does not function normally as a consequence of the sensory deprivation .

Racism is a tragedy beyond socioeconomic deprivation; it speaks of the total deprivation of the church today.

The deprivation had been the loss of her father, the constant loss of friends and contacts.

There is therefore a clear relationship between deprivation and crime.

Translated this means illiteracy, homelessness, hunger, deprivation and death.

When I hear about deprivation and injustice in the world, I get up and change the channel. 71.

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