poverty line

Definition of Poverty Line in English :

1. poverty level, poverty line

a level of personal income defining the state of poverty

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Poverty Line

noun

social welfare

if someone is on the poverty line, they have just enough income to buy the things they need in order to live

The most common way of measuring poverty today is to use an income-based poverty line and ascertain the numbers below it.

Thirteen per cent of the population live below the poverty line.

Some redistribution of income is necessary if families are to be kept above the poverty line.

the level of income below which a person or family is considered officially to be in poverty

: also poverty level