单词 | have-not |
释义 | have-notn. colloquial. A person, nation, etc., that has little or nothing of something, esp. money or material possessions; a poor or disadvantaged person, nation, etc. Frequently in plural. Contrasted with have (have n. 2), have-got (have-got n.). ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > poverty > [noun] > poor person poorc1225 poor man?c1225 beggar1340 goodlessa1350 poreleta1382 miserable1484 poor one1562 bankrupt?1563 indigent1563 poorling1581 poor snake1590 needling1608 desperviewa1640 have-nota1739 angishore1835 little worth1885 a1739 C. Jarvis tr. M. de Cervantes Don Quixote (1742) II. ii. iii. 105 There are but two families in the world, as my grandmother used to say: the Have's and the Have-not's [Sp. el tener y el no tener]. 1836 E. Bulwer-Lytton Athens (1837) I. 328 The division..of the Rich and the Poor—the Havenots and the Haves. 1888 J. Bryce Amer. Commonw. II. liii. 338 In the hostility of rich and poor, or of capital and labour, in the fears of the Haves and the desire of the Have-nots. 1916 G. Cannan Three Sons & Mother xxiii. 266 I am a Have, Shiel is a Have-not, and we shall never understand each other. 1928 Motor Boating June 100/2 The age-old jealousy of the Have Nots for the Have Gots. 1971 D. F. Downs Culture in Crisis xiii. 146 Some would say that these nations enjoy their affluence at the expense of the ‘have-nots’. 1999 Guardian 6 July i. 2/3 The digital revolution..risks causing social division between the information haves and have-nots. 2012 New Yorker 2 July 22/2 It was loan sharks vs. deadbeats, haves vs. have-nots. Compounds C1. General attributive and appositive. Cf. have n. Compounds 1. ΚΠ 1936 A. J. Toynbee in Internat. Affairs 15 31 This policy serves notice to the ‘have-not’ Powers that the ‘have’ Powers are on the run. 1949 Law & Contemp. Probl. 14 594 Two big groups of nations—the Latin Americans and the Arabs—had a very serious ‘have not’ attitude towards the American Press associations. 1982 R. Sheppard & M. Valpy National Deal ix. 178 Ontario was going through troubled times (by 1980 it was technically a have-not province). 2002 W. Roth Assault on Social Policy iii. 60 The have-not status of so many women is an alarming index of patriarchy. C2. have-not province n. Canadian a province that is disadvantaged or less prosperous, rich in resources, etc., in comparison with others; (in later use) spec. a province whose per capita tax revenue falls below a national average and is therefore entitled to receive equalization payments from the federal government (see equalization payment at equalization n. Additions).Opposed to have province n. ΚΠ 1938 Vancouver Daily Province 12 Jan. 4/1 It is not the ‘have-not’ provinces of Canada that are hurting Confederation, but the provinces of ‘haves’. 1957 Globe & Mail 25 July 6/2 Mr. Smallwood has never troubled to give a detailed accounting—to Newfoundlanders or other Canadian taxpayers whose money is supposed to be helping this have-not province. 1982 R. Sheppard & M. Valpy National Deal ix. 178 Ontario was going through troubled times (by 1980 it was technically a have-not province). 2020 theconversation.com 26 Mar. (accessed 8 Apr. 2020) Over the 63-year life of the program, Alberta has been a have-not province only eight times, and received a total of about $92 million (0.02 per cent of all equalization transfers). This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1739 |
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