poverty trap

Domain: Universal Words

Part of speech: noun

[usuallysing.] a situation in which sb stays poor even when they get a job because the money they receive from the government is reduced

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poverty trapEnglish›ChineseGetWord Corpus poverty trapEnglish›ChineseMain Dictionary

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poverty trap

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