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What does oppression mean?

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Noun
  1. The exercise of authority or power in a burdensome, cruel, or unjust manner.
  2. The act of oppressing, or the state of being oppressed.
  3. A feeling of being oppressed.
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This adds up to more than 500 million people, who have been saved from the jaws of oppression and dominance.
O'Grady's depiction of treachery and oppression by Elizabethan bureaucrats recalled contemporary parallels, thought the reviewer.
Each chapter takes a detailed and wide-ranging look at aspects of Marxist theory such as alienation, oppression, the family and class struggle.
For the sort of oppression they favour is the seed from which all racialism, including anti-Semitism, grows.
It is arguable that other forms of oppression, such as gender oppression, sexism, ableism, ageism, etc., are also produced by capitalism.
In an absurdist prose poem he wrote at the time, renewal is associated with class-based oppression.

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