Synonyms for poorerpoor·er

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1. List of paraphrases for "poorer":

   poorest, worse, poor, weaker

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1. Lucinda Platt:

   Attempts to oversimplify by putting poorer labor market performance down solely to less advantaged backgrounds on the one hand, or discrimination on the other, fail to recognize that both are relevant.

2. Saleemul Huq:

   What the U.S. will have to spend to adapt will dwarf what poorer countries will have to pay, these are mind-boggling amounts.

3. Josiah Gilbert Holland:

   The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.

4. Anton Pavlovich Chekhov:

   Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given. But up to now he hasn't been a creator, only a destroyer. Forests keep disappearing, rivers dry up, wild life's become extinct, and the climate's ruined and the land grows poorer and uglier every day.

5. Mary Creagh:

   The government claims that the UK is a world leader on tackling climate change, but behind the scenes the UK's export finance schemes are handing out billions of pounds of taxpayers money to develop fossil fuel projects in poorer countries.