English Dictionary

poverty line

名詞

(economics) The threshold of poverty, below which one's income does not cover necessities.

日本語の意味

最低限の生活に必要な収入の下限を示す指標。収入がこの水準を下回ると、生活必需品の確保が困難になる状態を示す。 / 経済学において、生活維持に必要な最低限度の所得を定めた境界線。

Many families live just above the poverty line despite working multiple jobs.

多くの家族が複数の仕事を掛け持ちしているにもかかわらず、貧困線ギリギリの収入で暮らしている。

意味（1）

(economics) The threshold of poverty, below which one's income does not cover necessities.

America’s poverty line is $63 a day for a family of four. In the richer parts of the emerging world $4 a day is the poverty barrier. But poverty’s scourge is fiercest below $1.25 (the average of the 15 poorest countries’ own poverty lines, measured in 2005 dollars and adjusted for differences in purchasing power): people below that level live lives that are poor, nasty, brutish and short.

poverty lines （ plural ）