Usually means: Person or group exercising unjust control.
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  1. oppressor: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. oppressor: Merriam-Webster
  3. oppressor: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. oppressor: Collins English Dictionary
  5. oppressor: Vocabulary.com
  6. Oppressor, oppressor: Wordnik
  7. oppressor: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. oppressor: Wiktionary
  9. Oppressor, oppressor: Dictionary.com
  10. oppressor: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  11. Oppressor: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Oppressor: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. oppressor: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. oppressor: Rhymezone
  15. Oppressor: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. oppressor: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. oppressor: FreeDictionary.org
  18. oppressor: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. oppressor: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Oppressor: Legal dictionary
  2. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. The Oppressor: Urban Dictionary

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▸ noun:  Someone who oppresses another or others.

Similar:
oppressionist, suppressor, opponent, oppressee, opposer, oppugner, oppugnant, obstructive, obstructionist, abominator, more...

Opposite:
liberator, emancipator, defender, protector, advocate

Phrases:
opposite of oppressor, more...

Adjectives:
foreign, common, cruel, great, white, proud, former, powerful, colonial, hated, tyrannical

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Similar:
oppressionist, suppressor, opponent, oppressee, opposer, oppugner, oppugnant, obstructive, obstructionist, abominator, more...

Opposite:
liberator, emancipator, defender, protector, advocate

Phrases:
opposite of oppressor, more...

Adjectives:
foreign, common, cruel, great, white, proud, former, powerful, colonial, hated, tyrannical

Colors:
    black,     gray,     dark red,     blood red,     charcoal, more...



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