pauperization

Etymology

From pauperize + -ation.

pauperization means the act or process of reducing to poverty. Lexicurio rates it Rare gem — a strength score of 84 out of 100.

Why “pauperization” is a great word

PAUPERIZATION — [Noun] The act or process of reducing to a state of poverty, of being made a pauper. From pauperize (from Latin pauper, "poor") + the noun-forming suffix -ation. Unlike "impoverishment," a broader term for becoming poor, or "immiseration," which emphasizes a progressive slide into misery, pauperization denotes the systematic, often forced, creation of destitution. It is the factory closing in a one-industry town, the debt bond that consumes a smallholding, and the bureaucratic edict that empties a village. Pauperization is not misfortune but achievement—the cold, administrative subtraction that renders a person a unit of destitution in the ledgers of the world.

noun

The act or process of reducing to poverty.“the modern schemes for the amelioration which ignore the laws of competition, must end either in pauperization, […] or in the destruction of property”