Indigent meaning

Adjective: indigent

Pronunciation: (in-di-junt)

Indigent meaning: Poor enough to need help from others.

Synonyms: destitute, impoverished, needy, penury, pauperism, parsimonious

Noun: indigent

Indigent meaning: A person who is very poor.

Synonyms: pauper, poor, impecunious

Derived forms: indigents

Quotations: David Carroll – There’s a real disconnect in this country between what people perceive is the state of indigent defence and what it is. I attribute that to shows like law and order , where the defendant says, ‘I want a lawyer,’ and all of a sudden legal aid appears in the cell. That’s what people think.

Robert Hardy – The district started out at a rate of thirty five cents thirty years ago, and as evaluations have changed and requirements of the district have changed, we’ve been able to lower our tax rate, and it’s been as low as thirteen cents. We’re mandated to provide services like a hospital system and also to provide for the care of indigents in the county and we look at what our needs are to cover those.

Laurance Labadie – First we manufacture indigent and superfluous people by legal monopolies in land, money and idea patents, erecting tariff barriers to protect monopolies from foreign competition, and taxing labourers to subsidize rich farmers and privileged manufacturers.

Michael Murphy – I worry about the folks who speak Spanish, who don’t understand the plans, who are indigent or who can’t read. There’s still a lot of confusion, and people might think it’s so difficult they just don’t want to bother with it.

John McArthur  – Our basic objection is that the county indigent health care fund is a fund of last resort, and if another funding source is available, which it is, then the law passed by the voters requires that it be used instead.

Sample sentences:

1. It’s not about what’s best for the lawyers. It’s about representing indigent defendants.
2. Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.
3. For one poor man there are an hundred indigent.
4. The irony is that, for bail purposes, my client is indigent.
5. Defence office will work to secure defence lawyers for him. He filed a declaration of means and, based on that, the Principal Defender has concluded that he is partially indigent.
6. Microsoft had an opportunity to ask any questions it wanted to about the nature of those sensitive business discussions. Unless Microsoft wants to claim that, like some indigent criminal defendants, they are unable to procure competent counsel on their own, it’s really up to them to ask those questions.
7. When I was there, he was a great administrator and great boss. He did a whole lot for this community and for indigent clients. I think the good outweighed the bad. Plus, he helped springboard me to where I am now. He taught me a lot about criminal law and procedure. I’m indebted to him.
8. The indigent poor those living at or below the poverty line are the sickest, the most difficult group to figure out how to get them health-care coverage, and yet they’re the ones who need it the most.
9. There is a large indigent community where we saw higher death rates.
10. To a people warlike and indigent, an incursion into a rich country is never hurtful.