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How to pronounce oppression
IPA transcription: [əp'ɹɛʃən]
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Noun
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the act of subjugating by cruelty
“the tyrant's oppression of the people”
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the state of being kept down by unjust use of force or authority:
“after years of oppression they finally revolted”
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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.