poverty trap

1. 1.

   a situation in which an increase in income results in a loss of benefits so that you are no better off

   Broadersituation

   United Kingdom

Questions about poverty trap

What does poverty trap mean?

poverty trap means "a situation in which an increase in income results in a loss of benefits so that you are no better off".

Is poverty trap a common word?

poverty trap 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.