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What is a poverty line?

What is a poverty line? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. The threshold of poverty, below which one's income does not cover necessities.
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Each of these groups contains a high concentration of those below the poverty line.
With half the population below the poverty line and one-third out of work, the utility hikes may well simply be unsustainable.
They are still living below the poverty line, and that poverty line is an inhuman poverty line.
This is legally possible because minimum wages have been kept way below the poverty line.
One of the variables included in the survey is household income relative to the poverty line.
Forty years earlier, a family at the poverty line had an income that was 42.6 percent of the median income.

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