Some play bingo for fun, others buy lottery tickets out of financial desperation.

But as a part of the cash-rich Microsoft, it is motivated less by financial desperation than by the competitive instincts of its managers.

Most of the female performers were prostitutes because of financial desperation.

His inability to secure more than bit parts provokes financial desperation and an existential crisis.

Were there mitigating factors - financial desperation, perhaps?

And your payments must be fair, not discounted to exploit his financial desperation.

The other was an elderly man who simply refused to go - and not, apparently, out of financial desperation.

And exploitation it is when the seller is not making a truly voluntary decision but responding to financial desperation.

Given the fund-raising muscle of George W. Bush, this can't be attributed to financial desperation.

Their financial desperation reached the point of being unable to compensate their professors.