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underprivileged

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underprivileged
adjective
the charity arranges holidays for underprivileged children:
needy, deprived, in need, in want, in distress, disadvantaged, needful, poor, destitute, in reduced circumstances, in straitened circumstances, impoverished, poverty-stricken, penurious, indigent, as poor as a church mouse, unable to keep the wolf from the door;
British on the breadline, without two pennies/brass farthings to rub together;
informal on one's uppers, on one's beam-ends;
rare pauperized, beggared, necessitous.
antonyms privileged, wealthy, well off.
underprivileged Oxford Dictionary of English