oppressor
pronunciation
How to pronounce oppressor in British English:
UK [əˈpresə(r)]
How to pronounce oppressor in American English:
US [əˈpresər]
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- Noun:
- a person of authority who subjects others to undue pressures
Word Origin
- oppressor (n.)
- c. 1400, from Old French opresseor, from Latin oppressor, from opprimere (see oppress (v.)).
Example
- 1. If you are neutral in situations of injustice , you have chosen the side of the oppressor .
- 2. Mr ruto 's lieutenants sometimes beat the anti-colonial drum , promising the expulsion of white farmers from the rift valley ( where there are almost none ) and identifying the icc as an oppressor .
- 3. Even as many americans make the mistake of viewing china as a monolithic superpower , the chinese , too , tend toward one-sided views of america . America the imperialist oppressor ; america the violent .
- 4. These range from the billions american taxpayers give israel and egypt to underwrite the 1979 peace , to all the resentment america 's muslim allies harbour towards the superpower for being soft on the oppressor of the palestinians .
- 5. In his memoirs , " long road to freedom , " he wrote that he survivedduring those years of captivity because he always decided to look upon his oppressor as also being a human being , also being a human being .