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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
haves
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
the have-nots...the haves
▪ a country where the have-nots far outnumber the haves
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ In that system, things were rigged in favor of the haves.
▪ It was a joke played by the haves against the have-nots.
▪ Never has Chabrol revealed so relentlessly the dangerous, ever-widening chasm between the haves and the have-nots.
▪ The haves plan to vote Tory: the have nots support Labour.
▪ The current shakeout may serve to separate the haves from have-nots.
▪ The society of a few haves and a multitude of have nots had been transformed.
Wiktionary
haves

n. The wealthy or privileged, contrasted to those who are poor or deprived: the have nots. vb. (context nonstandard English) (en-third-person singular of: have)

Usage examples of "haves".

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 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.

They let the cand-le burn all the night, and Gavin Haves never again left his house past sunset-until he went to fight for Prince Tearlach.

Jessie Haves giggled at her friend's wit, the red cherries bouncing on her hat, "Maybe not just yet awhile," Roger said, still smiling.

You’d say the Haves, those with less but who still have power, and then the Have-Nots.

The G’Dok, the Haves,” Glemoor held his hands as if balancing melons, “and the Leahru, those with less, and then at the very, very bottom, off the scale, the Efram.