(n.) The condition of being mendicant; beggary; begging.

bare cupboard bare subsistence beggarliness beggary begging bumming cadging deprivation destitution empty purse grinding poverty gripe hand-to-mouth existence homelessness impoverishment indigence lack mendicity moneylessness mooching necessitousness necessity need neediness panhandling pauperism pauperization penury pinch privation scrounging sponging want