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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.
The last example invokes an Afrocentric royal African lineage and past in order to salvage a self-esteem beaten down by oppression.
In 1967 a military junta overthrew the government in Greece and established a brutal regime of oppression.
The work is violently powerful, its overriding message being the oppression of the Mexican lower classes.
Plunder and rapine made her rich, and her oppression of millions made her great.
O'Grady's depiction of treachery and oppression by Elizabethan bureaucrats recalled contemporary parallels, thought the reviewer.

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