noun. The act or process of making paupers of or reducing to pauperism. Also spelled pauperisation.

noun. The act or process of reducing to pauperism.

noun. The act or process of reducing to pauperism.

noun. a state of extreme poverty or destitution

noun. the act of making someone poor

"As she came to understand what didn't "add up," it was that the process of trading the state to outside owners in exchange for their (it now seems) entirely temporary agreement to enrich us, in other words the pauperization of California, had in fact begun at the time Americans first entered the state, took what they could, and, abetted by the native weakness for boosterism, set about selling the rest."

deprivation  privation  

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