Main entry: privation, deprivation
Definition: act of depriving someone of food or money or rights
Usage: nutritional privation; deprivation of civil rights
Main entry: deprivation, loss
Definition: the disadvantage that results from losing something
Usage: his loss of credibility led to his resignation; losing him is no great deprivation
Main entry: privation, neediness, deprivation, want
Definition: a state of extreme poverty