The phrase "absolute destitution" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a state of complete poverty or lack of resources.
Example: "The charity aims to provide support to families living in absolute destitution, ensuring they have access to basic necessities."
Alternatives: "utter poverty" or "complete deprivation".
He relayed an account from a witness who saw the colonists in absolute destitution, sleeping on open beaches and ramshackle huts.
Mr Pollard called for the introduction of a minimum sum which lenders must leave in a client's accounts by law to "avoid absolute destitution".
Even when Americans had jobs and 401 k)s, they weren't exactly emptying their wallets for the 1.4 billion people who live in absolute destitution – $1.25 a day or less – in the developing world.
He said: "While I accept that the various payday lenders are legally entitled to 'clear out' someone's bank account if money is owing to them, it struck me that there ought to be a statutory minimum amount which must be left in the account (say £10) to avoid absolute destitution".
Whilst I accept that the various payday lenders are legally entitled to 'clear out' someone's bank account if money is owing to them, it struck me that there ought to be a statutory minimum amount which MUST be left in an account (say £10) to avoid absolute destitution; and as I understand you set and regulate the rules, you might look at this with a view to preventing further deaths".
"Instead we see today the number of people sleeping on London's streets - in absolute destitution in one of the world's richest cities - has more than doubled on Boris's watch".
The government subsequently set two ambitious targets as milestones on the journey: to have reduced the number of poor children by at least a quarter in 2004-05; and to have cut it by half in 2010-11.Child poverty, conjuring up images of Victorian paupers like Tiny Tim, is an emotive term for what is now a relative measure of income inequality rather than an absolute indicator of destitution.
Absolute poverty, that peasant destitution, is something I regard as an abhorrence.
And do note that this is the only economic system which has ever raised the living standards of the average person substantially, for substantial periods of time, above the absolute poverty of peasant destitution.
They were near to destitution.
Think food banks, evictions, and destitution.
