Usually means: Lack of basic necessities, hardships.
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  1. privations: Merriam-Webster
  2. privations: Collins English Dictionary
  3. privations: Vocabulary.com
  4. Privations, privations: Wordnik
  5. privations: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. privations: Wiktionary
  7. privations: Dictionary.com
  8. privations: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. privations: Legal dictionary

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  1. privations: Encyclopedia

(Note: See privation as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (privation)

noun:  (philosophy) The state of being deprived of or lacking an attribute formerly or properly possessed; the loss or absence of such an attribute.
noun:  The state of being very poor, and lacking the basic necessities of life.
noun:  The act of depriving someone of such basic necessities; deprivation.
noun:  (obsolete) Degradation or suspension from an office.
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