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Re:The difference between ‘broke’ and ‘poor’ by hopler on Saturday March 16, 2019 @12:30PM (#19408630)
It's common everywhere I've traveled in USA to use "poor" to mean unable to afford something.

That's the dictionary definition of the word.

Re:The difference between ‘broke’ and ‘poor’ by 13415 on Saturday March 16, 2019 @01:06PM (#19408834)
Not really.

Cambridge Dictionary:

1. having little money and/or few possessions 2. to have very little of a particular substance or quality

Google:

1. lacking sufficient money to live at a standard considered comfortable or normal in a society 2. of a low or inferior standard or quality

Dictionary.com:

1.having little or no money, goods, or other means of support: a poor family living on welfare. 2. Law. dependent upon charity or public support. 3.(of a country, institution, etc.) meagerly supplied or endowed with resources or funds. 4. characterized by or showing poverty. 5. deficient or lacking in something specified

Oxford Dictionary:

1. Lacking sufficient money to live at a standard considered comfortable or normal in a society. 2. Of a low or inferior standard or quality. 3. [attributive] (of a person) deserving of pity or sympathy.

Re:The difference between ‘broke’ and ‘poor’ by s_y_n_t_a_x on Saturday March 16, 2019 @03:48PM (#19409800)
Cambridge 2, Google 2, Dictionary 5.

Having too little of quantity of something (money) to do X (go out, renovate, travel, etc).

Re:The difference between ‘broke’ and ‘poor’ by golergka on Saturday March 16, 2019 @07:51PM (#19411194)
Meaning of the word is defined by it's use, not by a dictionary.