antipoverty

[ an-tee-pov-er-tee, an-tahy- ]

adjective

1. designed or directed to reduce or abolish poverty (used especially in describing certain governmental programs).

Word History and Origins

Origin of antipoverty¹

anti- + poverty

Example Sentences

She was an early critic of the Vietnam War and spent years tirelessly maintaining a collective farming venture she founded to serve as an antipoverty program for her fellow Mississippians.

From Washington Post

She had gone to work in the charity sector and in 2010, sitting in the open-plan office of the antipoverty nonprofit Oxfam in Oxford, she came across a diagram.

From Time

He had supported Kennedy in 1960 and since then had impressed him with his economic and antipoverty programs.

From The Daily Beast