Short of money as a result of paying high insurance premiums.

(Scotland, law, historical) The list of poor people who are litigants, but unable to pay the expenses of litigation, and therefore allowed to sue in forma pauperis.

Alternative form of cash poor

plural of poor cod

(Wales) Someone to be pitied, poor thing

(Wales) poor thing

(informal) Used to indicate that one has sympathy for something or someone familiar which does not having an optimal situation.

(dated) Poor people who are incapable of providing for themselves and thus seen as legitimate recipients of charity.

(dated) Poor people who ought to be able to provide for themselves but are too lazy to do so, and thus seen as not worthy of charity.

(Roman Catholicism) The Order of Saint Clare. / plural of Poor Clare