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   indigent

   /ˈɪndɪdʒ(ə)nt/

   adjective

   • 1. poor; needy: "a charity for the relief of indigent artists"

   noun

   • 1. a needy person.

   Word Origin late Middle English: via Old French from late Latin indigent- ‘lacking’, from the verb indigere, from indi- (strengthened form of in- ‘into’) + egere ‘to need’.

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