Usually means: Minimum income for basic needs.
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We found 17 dictionaries that define the word poverty line:

General (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. poverty line, the poverty line: Merriam-Webster
  2. poverty line: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. poverty line: Collins English Dictionary
  4. poverty line: Vocabulary.com
  5. poverty-line: Wordnik
  6. poverty line: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. poverty line: Wiktionary
  8. poverty line: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. poverty line: Dictionary.com
  10. Poverty Line, Poverty line: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. poverty line: Rhymezone
  12. poverty line: FreeDictionary.org
  13. poverty line: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. poverty line: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

(Note: See poverty_lines as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (poverty line)

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

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