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Definitions of oppression
  1. noun
    a feeling of being oppressed

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  2. noun
    the act of subjugating by cruelty
    "the tyrant's oppression of the people"

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  3. noun
    the state of being kept down by unjust use of force or authority:
    "after years of oppression they finally revolted"
Definition that contains oppression
  • camp shelter for persons displaced by war or political oppression or for religious beliefs
  • liberty personal freedom from servitude or confinement or oppression
  • wright United States writer whose work is concerned with the oppression of African Americans (1908-1960)
  • dystopia state in which the conditions of life are extremely bad as from deprivation or oppression or terror
  • dystopia a work of fiction describing an imaginary place where life is extremely bad because of deprivation or oppression or terror
  • gay liberation movement the movement aimed at liberating homosexuals from legal or social or economic oppression
  • refugee camp shelter for persons displaced by war or political oppression or for religious beliefs
  • richard wright United States writer whose work is concerned with the oppression of African Americans (1908-1960)
  • gay lib the movement aimed at liberating homosexuals from legal or social or economic oppression
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