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How to pronounce oppression

IPA transcription: [əp'ɹɛʃən]

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Noun

  • the act of subjugating by cruelty

    “the tyrant's oppression of the people”

  • the state of being kept down by unjust use of force or authority:

    “after years of oppression they finally revolted”

  • a feeling of being oppressed

Usage examples

  • For two long years, the town residents suffered severely under the Japanese oppression.
  • Ultimately the Nephite settlers depart the land of Nephi due to Lamanite oppression.
  • It encourages nonviolent methodologies to reach peaceful solutions to conflicts and oppression.
  • Private police agencies offered employers the last form of union oppression.
  • Youth had come back to her, freed from the yoke of oppression.
  • It hypothesizes that all three types of oppression need to be overcome at once.
  • Youth had come back to her, freed from the yoke of oppression.
  • The jury also found that Choudhury acted with malice, oppression and fraud.
  • Gendered oppression is born through gender norms that have been adopted by society.
  • This theme is intertwined with that of oppression and blindness.