The world's poor

tonyck 2Member

Hi all GE members,

Can we use the phrase " the world's poor" to mean poor people in the world?

Many thanks

3/22/234:14 AM

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Gustavo, Co-ModeratorProfessor of Legal and Financial Translation

Hi, Tony,

@tonyck 2 posted:
Can we use the phrase " the world's poor" to mean poor people in the world?

Yes, that is correct. Being a collective nominalized adjective, "the poor" means "(all) the poor people." If you say "poor people" (without the article), the collective sense is lost.

3/22/237:08 AM

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