fuel poverty
(chiefly, UK, Ireland, New Zealand) The inability of a household to keep adequately warm at a reasonable cost.
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(chiefly, UK, Ireland, New Zealand) The inability of a household to keep adequately warm at a reasonable cost.
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- fuel-poor90%
(chiefly, UK, Ireland, New Zealand) Unable to keep one's dwelling adequately warm at a reasonable cost.
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(British, slang) Lacking in funds; without assets; poor.
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(US, idiomatic) In a condition of poverty as a result of inability to meet tax payments or other financial requirements for one's land holdings.
- poor56%
With no or few possessions or money, particularly in relation to contemporaries who do have them.
- JAM56%
(UK, informal) A household that is only barely able to meet its financial obligations.