deprivation

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   The act of depriving, dispossessing, or bereaving.

   Without doubt, respondent [Darrell E.] Burch alleges a serious deprivation of liberty; yet equally clearly he alleges no violation of the Fourteenth Amendment. […] Taken together, the decisions indicate that for deprivations worked by such random and unauthorized departures from otherwise unimpugned and established state procedures the State provides the process due by making available adequate postdeprivation remedies.

2. 2
   noun

   The state of being deprived; lack.

   He was suffering from deprivation of sleep.

3. 3
   noun

   act of depriving someone of food or money or rights

4. 4
   noun

   the disadvantage that results from losing something

5. 5
   noun

   a state of extreme poverty