Usually means: Lack or absence of necessities.
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  1. privation: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. privation: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. privation: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. privation: Collins English Dictionary
  5. privation: Vocabulary.com
  6. Privation, privation: Wordnik
  7. privation: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. privation: Wiktionary
  9. privation: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. privation: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. privation: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Privation, privation: Dictionary.com
  13. privation: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Privation: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Privation: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. privation: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. privation: Rhymezone
  18. Privation: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. privation: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. privation: Free Dictionary
  21. privation: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. privation: Dictionary/thesaurus
  23. privation: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. privation: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. privation: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. privation: A Word A Day

(Note: See privations as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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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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