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have-not
Word definitions for have-not in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"poor person," 1742, from have + not . Have in the sense of "one who 'has,' one of the wealthier class of persons" is from the same source. Earliest in translation of "Don Quixote:\n\n'A fig for Basilius's abilities! for, you are worth just as much as you ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a person with few or no possessions [syn: poor person ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. singular variant of have nots.
Usage examples of have-not.
I'm a good person, I'm a doctor, and here I am championing greed over selflessness, cheering on the haves against the have-nots.
The voices he searched out would not be in the cities but out somewhere beyond them across a widening gap, among the have-nots, the small, the disenfranchised and vengeful.
Les went on urgently, "but I don't need it to guess some dissident in the common mass of have-nots listened to every word of those 'casts and put what you should never have aired to good use .
Even with the basic dignities of food, shelter, clothing, and education guaranteed, the appetite of the have-not was continually whetted by the abundance that was not his.
Even with the basic dignities of food, shelter, clothing and education guaranteed, the appetite of the have-not was continually whetted by the abundance that was not his.
It empowers and thus deepens the divide between the haves and have-nots, the developed and the developing world, the knowing and the ignorant, the computer illiterate.
It empowers - and thus deepens the divide between the haves and have-nots, the knowing and the ignorant, the computer illiterate.
The flags of convenience had been destroyed by attacks from the have-nots in the south, but apparently the transnationals had fled to the group of seven, and had been taken in and defended by the seven's giant militaries.
The result was a long series of collisions between the haves and the have-nots of history.
MUCH OF HUMAN HISTORY HAS CONSISTED OF UNEQUAL conflicts between the haves and the have-nots: between peoples with farmer power and those without it, or between those who acquired it at different times.
You’d say the Haves, those with less but who still have power, and then the Have-Nots.
The little wizardlings of the city, the have-nots of magic, are making it a point not to go outside after dark.