Uttal

  • Okänd accent:
    • IPA: /ˈɪndɪd͡ʒənt/
    • IPA: /ˈɪn.dɪ.dʒənt/

Ingen översättning hittades i den valda målspråket.

Definitioner

Adjektiv

  1. Poor; destitute; in need.

Substantiv

  1. A person in need, or in poverty.

Exempel

  • Many of the indigent children are so badly provided for by their parents, with both food and raiment, that they cannot attend school regularly; [...]
  • I had since my introduction to the prince been sensitive to the fact that he must think an obviously indigent soldier of fortune will sooner or later open the subject of a subscription to the Greek Cause.
  • Because of this, when my second major health fiasco happened, I had no insurance, so I went to a teaching hospital where they took indigent patients.
  • In numerous Supreme Court decisions since Gideon v. Wainwright, the states have been required to provide counsel for indigent defendants at virtually all other stages of the criminal process, beginning with arrest and concluding with the defendant's release from the system.
  • I liked the streets best, so I walked and stared, and slept in a Salvation Army hostel for indigents. But I was no indigent; I was rich in feeling, and that was a luxury I had rarely known.
  • The influx of indigents overwhelmed the city's meagre social services and affordable accommodation.
  • Then in 2005 a Republican-led Congress passed a bill requiring millions of low-income people to pay higher co-payments and premiums under Medicaid. The result was that many more indigents had to forgo care.
  • The indigent must be taken care of.

Böjningsformer

Pluralindigents
Komparativmore indigent
Superlativmost indigent