penuria

f.

1 penury, poverty (pobreza).

2 paucity, dearth (escasez).

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penuria

► nombre femenino

1 (escasez) shortage

2 (pobreza) extreme poverty, penury

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SF (=pobreza) poverty; (=escasez) shortage, dearth

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femenino

a) (escasez) shortage, dearth

una auténtica penuria de medios — a real shortage o dearth of resources

pasaron verdaderas penurias — they suffered real hardship

b) (pobreza) poverty

viven en la penuria — they live in poverty

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= paucity, penury, hardship.

Ex. So we see extraordinary hardships cheerfully borne (indeed, apparently enjoyed) by zealous mountaineers, earnest single-handed yachtsmen floating round the world, and all-weather fishing-hobbyists sit patiently at the side of, and sometimes in, rivers, undeterred by the paucity of their catches.

Ex. The practice found in some libraries of using the index to the scheme as an index to the catalogue is a makeshift expedient, by penury out of ignorance, and must be condemned.

Ex. Ordinarily, one should avoid simultaneous 'exchanges' of personnel between units for training purposes because it is a hardship for any library section to try to train a new person while one of their 'regulars' is gone at the same time.

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* pasar penurias = suffer from + deprivation.

* penurias = deprivation.

* penurias económicas = economic deprivation.

* vivir en la penuria = live in + penury.

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femenino

a) (escasez) shortage, dearth

una auténtica penuria de medios — a real shortage o dearth of resources

pasaron verdaderas penurias — they suffered real hardship

b) (pobreza) poverty

viven en la penuria — they live in poverty

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= paucity, penury, hardship.

Ex: So we see extraordinary hardships cheerfully borne (indeed, apparently enjoyed) by zealous mountaineers, earnest single-handed yachtsmen floating round the world, and all-weather fishing-hobbyists sit patiently at the side of, and sometimes in, rivers, undeterred by the paucity of their catches.

Ex: The practice found in some libraries of using the index to the scheme as an index to the catalogue is a makeshift expedient, by penury out of ignorance, and must be condemned.

Ex: Ordinarily, one should avoid simultaneous 'exchanges' of personnel between units for training purposes because it is a hardship for any library section to try to train a new person while one of their 'regulars' is gone at the same time.

* pasar penurias = suffer from + deprivation.

* penurias = deprivation.

* penurias económicas = economic deprivation.

* vivir en la penuria = live in + penury.

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penuria

feminine

1 (escasez) shortage, dearth

una auténtica penuria de medios a real shortage o dearth of resources

pasaron verdaderas penurias durante la guerra they suffered real hardship during the war

2 (pobreza) poverty

viven en la penuria they live in poverty o (liter) penury

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penuria sustantivo femenino

a) (escasez) shortage, dearth;

◊ pasar penurias to suffer hardship

b) (pobreza) poverty

penuria sustantivo femenino shortage, poverty

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penuria nf

1. [pobreza] poverty;

vivieron muchos años en la penuria they lived in poverty for many years

2. [escasez] paucity, dearth;

pasar penurias to suffer hardship

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penuria

f

1 (pobreza) poverty;

sufrir penurias suffer hardship

2 fml : de medios, espacio shortage (de of)

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penuria nf

1) escasez: shortage, scarcity

2) : poverty