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Definition of privation noun from the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary

privation

noun

NAmE//praɪˈveɪʃn//

[countable, usually plural, uncountable] (formal)

a lack of the basic things that people need for living synonym hardship the privations of poverty They endured years of suffering and privation.

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