antipoverty

English

Etymology

anti- +‎ poverty

Adjective

antipoverty (not comparable)

1. (politics) That serves to alleviate poverty.
   • 2002, Frank Tenaille, translated by Steven Toussaint and Hope Sandrine, Music Is the Weapon of the Future: Fifty Years of African Popular Music, Chicago, IL: Lawrence Hill Books, →ISBN, page 182:

     This initiative gave birth to an urban movement, the […] SAPE: a way of expressing an identity that was antipoverty, antidepression, and antipower (because it opposed the abas-cost, the uniform imposed by Mobutu) for thousands of young Kinshasans, as well as for Brazzavillians on the other side of the Congo River.

Translations

that serves to alleviate poverty

• Portuguese: antipobreza