poverty level

1. 1.

   a level of personal income defining the state of poverty

   Synonymspoverty line

   Broaderpersonal income

Questions about poverty level

What does poverty level mean?

poverty level means "a level of personal income defining the state of poverty".

What is another word for poverty level?

Close synonyms include poverty line. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is poverty level a common word?

poverty level is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.