Poverty unfortunately sees dinner reduced (9)
I believe the answer is:
neediness
'poverty' is the definition.
(thesaurus)
'unfortunately sees dinner reduced' is the wordplay.
'unfortunately' indicates an anagram.
'reduced' means to remove the last letter.
'sees'+'dinner'='seesdinner'
'seesdinner' with its last letter taken off is 'seesdinne'.
'seesdinne' anagrammed gives 'NEEDINESS'.
(Other definitions for neediness that I've seen before include "Wanting state" , "Poverty" , "Destitution" , "Insecurity" , "Want" .)