Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Owning land or securities as a principal source of revenue.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Possessed of property.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Possessing property; holding real estate, or other investments of money.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective That owns
property ; especially that ownsland orreal estate and derivesincome from it
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective owning land or securities as a principal source of revenue
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Examples
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An idea attractive to many of the have not's (including many of the young) and anathema to the have's (the "propertied" class).
unknown title 2009
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A proletariat -- those without property of any kind except their own labor power -- made its appearance, dependent on the propertied to employ them.
Steve Fraser: Uncle Sam Doesn't Want You Steve Fraser 2011
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White, propertied, hetero men could swim in the deep end, where liberties were allowed.
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Or as Friedrich Engels used to put it: "This time there'll be a dies irae such as has never been seen before… all the propertied classes in the soup, complete bankruptcy of the bourgeoisie, war and profligacy to the nth degree."
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Again, the one thing that matters to policy is that home ownership boosts voting for right wing parties and in general a conservative, propertied class point of view among voters.
Matthew Yglesias » The High Cost of Subsidized Homeownership 2010
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In the bourgeois mind a class struggle is a terrible and hateful thing, and yet that is precisely what socialism is, -- a world-wide class struggle between the propertyless workers and the propertied masters of workers.
Preface 2010
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And, the propertied interests are willing to indulge them, so long as the Law Lords have the final say on matters of real power, especially on non-justiciable matters like who won the 2000 election.
Matthew Yglesias » The Constitutionality of the Filibuster 2010
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A proletariat -- those without property of any kind except their own labor power -- made its appearance, dependent on the propertied to employ them.
Steve Fraser: Uncle Sam Doesn't Want You Steve Fraser 2011
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Indeed, the hope was that virtually all mortgages would go bad, so that the property could be seized and transferred to our true propertied class of rightful owners -- those north of the 99th percentile -- while leaving the dispossessed homeowners in permanent debt peonage as a result of "reformed" bankruptcy law.
L. Randall Wray: Nightmare on Wall Street L. Randall Wray 2011
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Especially blighted areas will be occupied by climate refugees who work as servants for the propertied classes.
Turned Out Nice: How the British Isles Will Change as the World Heats Up by Marek Kohn 2010
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