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Noun Concept
Categories: Social inequality, Injustice, Majority–minority relations, Neuroethology, Abuse
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oppression  class oppression  Cultural oppression  Economic "oppression"  economic oppression
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The state of being kept down by unjust use of force or authority: "after years of oppression they finally revolted" WordNet 3.0
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The state of being kept down by unjust use of force or authority: "after years of oppression they finally revolted" WordNet 3.0
The state of being kept down by unjust use of force or authority Open English WordNet
Oppression is malicious or unjust treatment of, or exercise of power over, a group of individuals, often in the form of governmental authority or cultural opprobrium. Wikipedia
Negative outcome experienced by people targeted by the cruel exercise of power in a society or social group. Wikipedia Disambiguation
Control of people by others Wikidata
The exercise of authority or power in a burdensome, cruel, or unjust manner. OmegaWiki
Exercise of authority or power in a burdensome, cruel, or unjust manner. Wiktionary (translation)
IS A
subjugation
violence
abuse of power
HAS KIND
yoke
persecution
sexual repression
internalized oppression
HAS INSTANCE
South African Police
Zersetzung
Mongol-Tatar yoke
WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
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class oppression, Cultural oppression, Economic "oppression", economic oppression, Ethnic oppression, gender oppression, Hierarchy of oppression, Indirect oppression, institutional oppression, Institutionalized oppression, Internal oppression, Operession, Opperesion, Opperesson, Oppersion, oppress, oppressed, oppressed people, oppression studies, oppressive, Oppressors, Opression, racial oppression, social oppression, social repression, systematic oppression, Underyoke

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