The word 'privations' is correct and is commonly used in written English.
It is typically used to refer to the state of being deprived of basic necessities or comforts, such as food, shelter, or necessary resources. It can also refer to the hardship or suffering endured as a result of these deprivations. Example: The refugees in the camp faced terrible privations, with inadequate food and shelter, and limited access to medical care.
He talks frequently about the privations of his early years: he slept in a drawer as a baby because his parents couldn't afford a cot, and his family was forced to travel round the country looking for work, before finally emigrating to South Africa.
But these privations also present the opportunity to come together and share what we have, including stories: people who otherwise have little time for reading find that they are compelled to light the fire, hunker down on the armchair and open a book.
Chafee's campaign, though, is used to such privations in battling the Clinton juggernaut.
We learn not only how the light fell from the windows, but how it reflected from the carpets and brocades that vied for attention with the netsuke nestled on green velvet in their black lacquer vitrine, and how it grew greyer when wartime privations in Vienna limited the cleaning of the glass.
In Poland in particular, there is a strong feeling that mean-minded West Europeans are in danger of forgetting the moral obligations they owe to the Poles, who suffered dire privations under the Nazis and during the cold war.But criticising the EU for its lack of generosity is in itself rather ungenerous.
This holds that Britain is an organic nation, with a definite identity, lashed together by hundreds of years of shared customs, privations, wars and culture.
North Koreans authorised to speak to visitors appear to be oblivious of their guests' annoyance at such privations.
Non-combatants in the big cities generally accepted shortages and other privations with patriotic stoicism.Two-and-a-half decades on, Iran again gives the impression of a country at war even if, for the moment, the guns are silent.
Voters, alas, are fickle and forgetful, even or especially those old enough to remember the strikes of the 1970s or the privations of rationing.
Hosea Williams reminded Americans that thugs, too, have a part to play.The description was his, and his thuggishness sprang directly from the privations of his life.
Then there are the boats based in Northern Ireland, often staffed with diligent, sober Filipinos taking advantage of a loophole in the visa system, who cope with the privations of life at sea better than the average Scot.
