oppressornoun [ C ]
uk/əˈpres.ər/us/əˈpres.ɚ/someone who treats people in an unfair and cruel way and prevents them from having opportunities and freedom:
Sisters, we must rise up and defeat our oppressors.
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Powerful people & dictators
- a heavy hitter idiom
- authoritarian
- autocrat
- autocratic
- big beast
- despot
- dictator
- dictatorial
- establishment
- figurehead
- grey eminence
- heavy
- potentate
- power broker
- puissance
- puissant
- strongman
- voiceless
- warlord
- éminence grise
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