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culturally deprived
(redirected from disadvantaged)

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culturally deprived and culturally disadvantaged
Euph. poor; lower-class. Joe is working at a summer camp for culturally deprived children. Jane grew up in a culturally disadvantaged neighborhood.


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President Obama has also provided funds to give small and disadvantaged businesses a head start in winning procurement projects.
The Problems of Disadvantaged Youth: An Economic Perspective, edited by Jonathan Gruber, will be available this fall from the University of Chicago Press.
Titled "Empowerment, Activation and Participation: Actively Engaging Disadvantaged People in Improving the Quality of their Lives," the report was undertaken to help social security institutions address "multi-dimensional disadvantage," a phenomenon of growing dependence on social services by a segment of the population fueled by interconnected conditions such as ill health, disability, lack of skills and education, poverty and old age.
 
 
 
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