Usually means: Systematic, unjust treatment of groups.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. oppression: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. oppression: Merriam-Webster
  3. oppression: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. oppression: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. oppression: Collins English Dictionary
  6. oppression: Vocabulary.com
  7. Oppression, oppression: Wordnik
  8. oppression: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. oppression: Wiktionary
  10. oppression: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. oppression: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. oppression: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. oppression: Dictionary.com
  14. oppression: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Oppression: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Oppression: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. oppression: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. oppression: Rhymezone
  19. Oppression: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. oppression: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. oppression: FreeDictionary.org
  22. oppression: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. oppression: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. oppression: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. oppression: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  3. oppression: Legal dictionary
  4. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. oppression: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Political (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. oppression: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  The exercise of authority or power in a burdensome, cruel, or unjust manner.
noun:  The act of oppressing, or the state of being oppressed.
noun:  A feeling of being oppressed.

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