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• s  not having enough money to pay for necessities

• The buyer was Cheung Kong (Holdings), a mass-market property developer owned by Li Ka-shing, a once penniless Chiu Chow immigrant.
• Yet enough of their compatriots did these things to transform the penniless girl without obvious prospects or talents into a wealthy tycoon and eponymous brand.
• The greatest is Julius Caesar, penniless patrician, demagogue, traitor to his class, brilliant lawyer, writer, invincible general, creator of an empire.

• hard up
• impecunious
• in straitened circumstances
• penurious
• pinched

News & Articles

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• Review: The Dig at Stickyz, June 12
  The Dig draws from the Brooklyn rock talent base that brought us bands like The Strokes and The Walkmen. After the dot-com bubble jacked up real estate prices on most every square inch of Manhattan real estate, penniless East Village hipsters countered by hopping the East River and setting up shop in the lofty warehouses of Williamsburg. These concrete fortresses became the experimental grounds ...
  June 20, 2013 - Arkansas Times
• Top 4 Transfers: The Best Signings from La Liga's Summer so Far
  All but two La Liga teams are penniless and are sniffing abound for freebies and loan deals for their new signings. This sees selecting gold-plated, stomach-tingling summer transfers being a bit of a tough affair. However there are four standout candidates from the close season so far that have been ranked in order of genius using a complex formula of bias, quality, potential impact and most ...
  June 19, 2013 - Bleacher Report

Quotes

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• Al Sharpton in FOXNews
  It is only in the United States that a penniless survivor of the Holocaust and a fighter in the anti-Nazi underground could have received an education, raised a family and had the privilege of serving the last three decades of his life as a member... Tom Lantos http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Lantos&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNEMgnLJsVrwVsjgPjKq5cBfIViKvw Reuters http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSN02651683&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNFAY43ukly5Scf9EbiGpuaX-SaFHw Jan 2, 2008 73298 98082 penniless The irony is that people are squabbling over things that James Brown created and earned," Sharpton said. "He didn't inherit anything. He grew up fatherless, motherless, penniless and left people arguing over what they inherit from him."
• Theodor Herzl in Swans
  In 1895, Theodore Herzl, the founder of political Zionism, wrote in his diary: "We must expropriate gently the private property on the state assigned to us. We shall try to spirit the penniless population across the border by procuring employment...