The word 'beggar' is a correct and usable word in written English
It can be used as a noun to refer to a person who begs for money or food. Example sentence: The beggar waited at the side of the road, hoping for a generous donation.
3. The Welsh Captain describes Pistol as a "rascally, scald [scabby], beggarly, lousy, pragging [show-off] knave" in Henry 5. 4. Sebastian calls the Boatswain a "bawling, blasphemous, incharitable dog" in The Tempest. 5. Kent says Oswald is a "knave, beggar, coward, pander [pimp], and the son and heir of a mongrel bitch" in King Lear.
As one cleric explained, the act had turned Uganda "from being a beggar to being a nation that gives away to other nations.
Whoever gave his land and his home later became a beggar".Won't get fooled againHe points to what he says is the unhappy lot of those displaced by two other projects in Odisha.
One beggar asks for money for "the United Negro Fried Chicken Fund"; his companion displays the stump of his leg ("lost in Vietnam") for general delectation.
Downtown, there is a beggar on almost every corner.
A beggar in one of the city's trendier neighbourhoods laughs heartily when asked if she could feed her family for six pesos each.
The G7 is supposed to prevent beggar-thy-neighbour economic policies, yet its member countries are blatantly seeking to drive down their exchange rates to secure a competitive advantage.
"It's just a race to the bottom, a beggar-your-neighbour return to the protectionist policies of the 1930s, but these days it's not around trade tariffs, but around subsidising multinational corporations through the tax systems.
But Mr Eichengreen notes that the euro, by militating against more widespread beggar-thy-neighbour policies, may have helped preserve the European single market.* "The Slide to Protectionism in the Great Depression: Who Succumbed and Why?", NBER Working Paper No. 15142 (July 2009).
America underwrote the International Monetary Fund and the Bretton Woods system of fixed exchange rates to end beggar-thy-neighbour currency devaluations, and the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade to end trade disputes.The breakdown of Bretton Woods, two oil-price shocks and the Latin American debt crisis severely tested globalisation in the 1970s and 1980s.
Globalisation is a human construct, after all, not some force of nature; it can be reversed, as has happened in previous bouts of beggar-my-neighbour politics.
