Definition of "indigency" [in•di•gen•cy]

• Indigence. (noun)

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• "Fighting poverty, developing the local economy and creating job opportunities: assessing the work done by municipalities to stimulate the local economy and steps taken to deal with poverty through interventions such as indigency policies, extended publworks programme and use of local labour to do construction and maintenance of community infrastructure."
• "Such things as homelessness and medical indigency were incomprehensible to Hungarians then."
• "Many commenters on the Spectator demonstrate moral indigency with regard to race."