how to pronounce privation

/pɹaɪˈvɛɪ.ʃən/

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privation is pronounced in three syllables

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pɹaɪvɛɪʃən

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An example use of privation in a speech by a native speaker of british english:

“… their privation high unemployment at a …”

meanings of privation

noun:

  1. The act of depriving someone of such basic necessities; deprivation.
  2. The state of being very poor, and lacking the basic necessities of life.
  3. The state of being deprived of or lacking an attribute formerly or properly possessed; the loss or absence of such an attribute.
  4. Degradation or suspension from an office.

privation frequency in english - C2+ level of CEFR

the word privation occurs in english on average 0.4 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C2+ level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics privation can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that privation can be often used in the following areas:

1) communication, information, and media;

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