- beggary, begging, mendicancy - a solicitation for money or food (especially in the street by an apparently penniless person)
--1 is a kind of solicitation
Derived forms: verb beg3, verb beg2, verb beg1 - indigence, need, penury, beggary, pauperism, pauperization - a state of extreme poverty or destitution; "their indigence appalled him"; "a general state of need exists among the homeless"
--2 is a kind of poverty, poorness, impoverishment