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Definition period poverty in American English

period poverty noun

noun
1

the fact of girls and women being too poor to afford sanitary products

Example

Nigel Webster, the project manager of the Bestwood and Bulwell food bank in Nottingham, says he has been warning for years about "period poverty"

Definition period poverty in American English