poverty line

1. 1.

   a level of personal income defining the state of poverty

   Synonymspoverty level

   Broaderpersonal income

Questions about poverty line

What does poverty line mean?

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

What is another word for poverty line?

Close synonyms include poverty level. 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 line a common word?

poverty line 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.