乏

meagre; meager; scarce; limited; destitute; hard up; lacking; scanty; poor

to get scarce; to run short

poverty

Medicine

oligozoospermia; oligospermia

oliguria

poverty-stricken; destitute; poor; penurious

poor person; the poor

deficiency; insufficiency; shortage; lack; want; dearth; scarcity

short end of the stick; short straw; unlucky number; blank; bad bargain

parsimonious spirit; tendency to be frugal; inclination to scrimp and save

tendency to fuss over trivial things; worrier's disposition

to get the short end of the stick; to get the bad end of a bargain

poverty; destitution; privation; indigence; penury

jack of all trades, master of none

shabby; mean; sorry; dingy

shaking one's legs (usu. unconsciously); tapping one's foot; fidgeting (of the legs)

god of poverty

deficiency disease (e.g. protein, vitamin, etc.)

needy circumstances; living in poverty

oxygen deficiency; anoxia; hypoxia

Proverb

a poor man has no time for leisure; there is no rest for the poor

budget travel; penniless travel; travelling on the cheap

Medicine

hypoxemia; hypoxia

Colloquial

being unable to discern good food from bad; poor person's taste (in food); unsophisticated palate

poor household