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From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishindigentin‧di‧gent /ˈɪndɪdʒənt/ adjective formal POORvery poor
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indigent• Poverty was merely the lot of the indigent.• Was this some indigent artist he had picked up with in Paris?• Public hospitals are concerned that they will not have enough money to treat indigent people not covered by Medicaid.• Even medical care is available on demand at most public hospitals to indigent people with no money.• Nevertheless, in fact as well as in fiction, even those almost totally indigent retained their pride.• They hardly imagined that there were so many indigent, yearning, crooked, canny inheritors on the earth.
From Longman Business Dictionaryindigentin‧di‧gent /ˈɪndɪdʒənt/ adjective formal not having any money or possessionsHospitals continue to provide uncompensated care for the indigent.Origin indigent (1300-1400) Old French Latin, present participle of indigere “to need”
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