underprivileged

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English

Etymology

From under- +‎ privileged.

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Adjective

underprivileged (comparative more underprivileged, superlative most underprivileged)

  1. Deprived of the opportunities and advantages of others, usually through no fault of one's own.
    • 1996, “After the Smoke is Clear”, in Ironman, performed by Ghostface Killah:
      Underprivileged, grew up in a Stapleton house village / Where blood flood the water in streets like oil spillage

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Noun

underprivileged (plural underprivileged)

  1. A deprived person; deprived people (normally used as a plural).
    • 2004, Phyllis G. Jestice, Holy People of the World: A Cross-Cultural Encyclopedia‎, ABC-CLIO, →ISBN, page 183:
      Since that time, both Catholicism and the Protestant denominations have seen an enormous outpouring of caritative agencies. Nuns and monks made teaching and care for the underprivileged a central part of their vocation; devout men and women have founded and devoted their lives to institutions as far removed as Mother Teresa's Missionaries of Charity and the Salvation Army.

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Further reading

  • "underprivileged" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 324.
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