Usually means: Lack of financial resources; poverty.
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  1. indigency: Merriam-Webster
  2. indigency: Collins English Dictionary
  3. indigency: Wordnik
  4. indigency: Wiktionary
  5. Indigency: Dictionary.com
  6. Indigency: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  7. indigency: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  8. Indigency: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  9. indigency: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  10. indigency: FreeDictionary.org
  11. Indigency: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. indigency: Webster's New World Law Dictionary

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▸ noun:  Alternative form of indigence [Extreme poverty or destitution.]

Similar:
unaptitude, unequivalence, undiscipline, intreatance, inhabitance, uncertitude, discriminancy, villenage, retardency, villainage, more...

Opposite:
affluence, wealth, prosperity, abundance

Phrases:
medical indigency, more...

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Similar:
unaptitude, unequivalence, undiscipline, intreatance, inhabitance, uncertitude, discriminancy, villenage, retardency, villainage, more...

Opposite:
affluence, wealth, prosperity, abundance

Phrases:
medical indigency, more...



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