adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a deprived area (= where many poor people live )
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He grew up in one of the toughest and most deprived areas of Glasgow.
a deprived childhood (= without enough money, food, attention etc )
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Many children living in these areas have very deprived childhoods.
a deprived/disadvantaged background
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The school has a high percentage of pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
most
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I was struck more and more by the fact that there are comparable celebrations of human brilliance in the most deprived places.
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The most deprived regions are still suffering from cuts in social services, the police force and education.
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As the most deprived section of the population, they need the most help - and urgently.
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These organizations were to initiate a renewal scheme for one of the most deprived areas in Britain.
■ NOUN
area
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Finally, certain vulnerable groups were most affected by these changes, notably black families living in inner city deprived areas .
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For this reason the centre was placed in a deprived area of East London.
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Marked also was the apparent increase in the discrepancy between revitalising and deprived areas both between and within North Side neighbourhoods.
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The two policy approaches - attracting staff to deprived areas and improving the standard of deprived areas - are not mutually exclusive.
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And a scholarship will be given to a specially gifted child from a deprived area .
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In 1967-8 Education Priority Areas programmes were specifically area-based and targeted on the inner city and other deprived areas.
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A survey examined experiences and attitudes in the more socially deprived areas of the city.
child
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The buses were offered to a leading charity to take deprived children on a trip to Woburn Safari Park.
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There were accordingly several moves to bring services for the young offender closer to those for the deprived child .
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But by no means do all ordinary children do well, nor all deprived children poorly.
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I know of a school not far from this place where there are many highly deprived children , but they work well.
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Social services departments cooperate closely with voluntary organizations concerned with the welfare of deprived children .
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Voluntary effort has been prominent in the development of services for deprived children .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A deprived childhood can lead to emotional problems later.
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Children growing up in deprived areas are far more likely to turn to crime and drug abuse.
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Girls from deprived backgrounds often become pregnant at an early age.
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Most mass demonstrations of this type happen in places where people are enormously deprived .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Customers come mainly from the more socially deprived homes within the area.
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Desperately deprived groups do not organize to bring about the downfall of a political system.
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Finally, certain vulnerable groups were most affected by these changes, notably black families living in inner city deprived areas.
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For this reason the centre was placed in a deprived area of East London.
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He said the closures would be a blow to youngsters in deprived areas.
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I asked her if she did not feel deprived , having never experienced school life.
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I feel deprived if I can't have the same as everyone else.
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Then there was the resentment over the fur coat she was deprived of because I was sent to a fee-paying school.