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单词 immiseration
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Definition of immiseration in English:

immiseration

nounɪˌmɪzəˈreɪʃ(ə)ni(m)ˌmizəˈrāSHən
mass noun
  • Economic impoverishment.

    经济贫困

    rapid modernization had an impact on the level of urban immiseration
    Example sentencesExamples
    • It is not immediately clear how this jibes with the subsequent emphasis on working-class docility and immiseration of workers under the burden of capital's competitive restructuring efforts.
    • I do not think that Europe can remain a ‘social market capitalist island’ in a sea of general global immiseration.
    • In the Philippines, for example, rapid development and modernization led to the immiseration of the urban poor and the impoverishment of the rural population.
    • But, of course, neither Marx nor the anti-capitalist movement expect or have expected absolute immiseration to be the rule for either the advanced capitalist core or the increasingly excluded periphery.
    • For the country as a whole, it is very hard to resist the economic pressure to become bigger, to grow one's way out of social problems, most obviously the immiseration of the poor.
    • Some countries have witnessed concentration of capital among agroexporters alongside the marginalization and immiseration of small-scale producers and processors.
    • The 1929 stock market crash which marked the beginning of the Great Depression ushered in a period of immiseration for virtually the entire working class.
    • That gap creates lots of profound problems, but the progressive immiseration of the citizenry is not one of them.
    • He predicted the growing immiseration and impoverishment of the working class in capitalist societies.
    • Hand-loom weaving survived much longer, but growing immiseration was the lot of its practitioners by the 1840s.
    • In nineteenth-century Europe the immiseration of the Industrial Revolution was certainly eased by emigration, but it was eventually conquered by the very economic development that had originally caused it.
    • This includes killing, bodily or mental harm, preventing births, immiseration and forcibly transferring children.
    • The women recount stomach-churning stories of childhood slavery and abuse, rape, and immiseration.
    • Similar, if less sanguine, interpretations can be constructed around globalization, environmental agendas, and economic immiseration in the South.
    • They will also engage themselves vigorously with the immiseration and the violence suffered by that great portion of the planet who have never known democracy and freedom.
    • Firstly, the bulk of the population, which has long been suffering from neo-liberal policies and increasing immiseration, is now open to real social and economic alternatives.
    • The price paid by others in immiseration and suffering means that the leisure and creativity of the dominant class is prevented from being fully human.
    • Indeed, even those who hated the war may find themselves morally trapped into supporting direct rule if the alternative appears to be a collapse into anarchy, immiseration and ethnic conflict.
    • The first is the supposed correlation between market-friendly policies and mass immiseration.
    • Poverty and hardship continued to trouble social reformers and politicians in the second half of the nineteenth century, but there was a real change in emphasis from the sense of inescapable immiseration of the early nineteenth century.

Derivatives

  • immiserate

  • verbɪˈmɪzəreɪtɪ(m)ˈmɪzəˌreɪt
    [with object]
    • Cause to become poor or impoverished.

      the colonial policy immiserated the populace
      Example sentencesExamples
      • the most immiserated parts of Southern Europe
      • It is a human catastrophe that continues to immiserate and impoverish millions of people.
      • This a-historical machine will exploit and immiserate people on our behalf and exonerate us in the process.
      • Perhaps it's also a sly reference to the level of insanity required to embark on such a quixotic venture, one notorious for hobbling, immiserating and occasionally impoverishing even the proudest, toughest egos Hollywood has to offer.

Origin

1940s: translating German Verelendung.

Definition of immiseration in US English:

immiseration

nouni(m)ˌmizəˈrāSHən
  • Economic impoverishment.

    经济贫困

    rapid modernization had an impact on the level of urban immiseration
    Example sentencesExamples
    • For the country as a whole, it is very hard to resist the economic pressure to become bigger, to grow one's way out of social problems, most obviously the immiseration of the poor.
    • Some countries have witnessed concentration of capital among agroexporters alongside the marginalization and immiseration of small-scale producers and processors.
    • That gap creates lots of profound problems, but the progressive immiseration of the citizenry is not one of them.
    • But, of course, neither Marx nor the anti-capitalist movement expect or have expected absolute immiseration to be the rule for either the advanced capitalist core or the increasingly excluded periphery.
    • In nineteenth-century Europe the immiseration of the Industrial Revolution was certainly eased by emigration, but it was eventually conquered by the very economic development that had originally caused it.
    • I do not think that Europe can remain a ‘social market capitalist island’ in a sea of general global immiseration.
    • He predicted the growing immiseration and impoverishment of the working class in capitalist societies.
    • Hand-loom weaving survived much longer, but growing immiseration was the lot of its practitioners by the 1840s.
    • Similar, if less sanguine, interpretations can be constructed around globalization, environmental agendas, and economic immiseration in the South.
    • The price paid by others in immiseration and suffering means that the leisure and creativity of the dominant class is prevented from being fully human.
    • In the Philippines, for example, rapid development and modernization led to the immiseration of the urban poor and the impoverishment of the rural population.
    • Firstly, the bulk of the population, which has long been suffering from neo-liberal policies and increasing immiseration, is now open to real social and economic alternatives.
    • Poverty and hardship continued to trouble social reformers and politicians in the second half of the nineteenth century, but there was a real change in emphasis from the sense of inescapable immiseration of the early nineteenth century.
    • It is not immediately clear how this jibes with the subsequent emphasis on working-class docility and immiseration of workers under the burden of capital's competitive restructuring efforts.
    • The women recount stomach-churning stories of childhood slavery and abuse, rape, and immiseration.
    • The 1929 stock market crash which marked the beginning of the Great Depression ushered in a period of immiseration for virtually the entire working class.
    • This includes killing, bodily or mental harm, preventing births, immiseration and forcibly transferring children.
    • Indeed, even those who hated the war may find themselves morally trapped into supporting direct rule if the alternative appears to be a collapse into anarchy, immiseration and ethnic conflict.
    • The first is the supposed correlation between market-friendly policies and mass immiseration.
    • They will also engage themselves vigorously with the immiseration and the violence suffered by that great portion of the planet who have never known democracy and freedom.

Origin

1940s: translating German Verelendung.

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