Thesaurus / indigent
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In the late 19th century, dying at a hospital was reserved for indigents, the people who had nothing and no one.
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Hays County has a contract with the hospital to provide the county’s indigent care.
THE COVID-19 CHARMER: HOW A SELF-DESCRIBED FELON CONVINCED ELECTED OFFICIALS TO TRY TO HELP HIM PROFIT FROM THE PANDEMICBY VIANNA DAVILA, JEREMY SCHWARTZ AND LEXI CHURCHILLSEPTEMBER 25, 2020PROPUBLICA
No one in the county’s indigent health care program was looking to revamp the system or to invest in telehealth at the time, he said.
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The passage of Medicaid and Medicare in 1965 to provide care for the indigent and elderly led to the birth of the modern nursing home industry.
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We make fast the doors of our lighted houses against the indigent and the hungry.
THE UNSOLVED RIDDLE OF SOCIAL JUSTICESTEPHEN LEACOCK
The indigent Jakut exchanges his most valuable furs and skins for a few ounces of the "Circassian weed."
And to make good infantry, it requireth men bred, not in a servile or indigent fashion, but in some free and plentiful manner.
LANDHOLDING IN ENGLANDJOSEPH FISHER
John Porteous was born of indigent parents near the city of Edinburgh; and he served his time as an apprentice to a tailor.
Rail not at a guest, nor from thy gate thrust him; treat well the indigent; they will speak well of thee.
THE ELDER EDDAS OF SAEMUND SIGFUSSON; AND THE YOUNGER EDDAS OF SNORRE STURLESONSAEMUND SIGFUSSON AND SNORRE STURLESON
The authorities supplied that rifle at £4 each, and even gratis in the case of indigent burghers.
ORIGIN OF THE ANGLO-BOER WAR REVEALED (2ND ED.)C. H. THOMAS
WORDS RELATED TO INDIGENT
- bad off
- bankrupt
- beggared
- beggarly
- behind eight ball
- broke
- destitute
- dirt poor
- down-and-out
- empty-handed
- flat
- flat broke
- fortuneless
- hard up
- impecunious
- impoverished
- in need
- in want
- indigent
- insolvent
- low
- meager
- moneyless
- needy
- penniless
- penurious
- pinched
- poverty-stricken
- reduced
- scanty
- stone broke
- strapped
- suffering
- truly needy
- underprivileged
- unprosperous
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