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privations
 
Noun privation has 2 senses
  1. privation, want, deprivation - a state of extreme poverty
    --1 is a kind of poverty, poorness, impoverishment
  2. privation, deprivation - act of depriving someone of food or money or rights; "nutritional privation"; "deprivation of civil rights"
    --2 is a kind of social control
    --2 has particulars:
     pauperization, pauperisation, impoverishment; starvation, starving
privateersman privately-held privately-owned privately privately held corporation privateness privates privation privations privatisation privatisations privatise privatised privatization privatizations privatize privatized

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