indigency

English

Noun

indigency (countable and uncountable, plural indigencies)

  1. Alternative form of indigence.
    • 2007 January 8, Morris B. Hoffman, “Free-Market Justice”, in The New York Times‎[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 12 July 2022:
      Our data suggested that, contrary to the law’s rather binary notion of indigency, a large chunk of felony criminal defendants are what we have called “marginally indigent.”
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