Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
Poverty is the state of being extremely poor.
According to World Bank figures, 41 per cent of Brazilians live in absolute ~...
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N-UNCOUNT
2.
You can use ~ to refer to any situation in which there is not enough of something or its quality is poor. (FORMAL)
Britain has suffered from a ~ of ambition.
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N-SING: also no det, N of n