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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
propertied
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
class
▪ However, a resurgence of working-class agitation during 1833-4 alarmed the Whig government and the propertied classes in general.
▪ The propertied class which called itself liberal was immediately opposed to universal suffrage and to the masses in general.
▪ The propertied classes rallied to the government and called for a halt to all disturbances.
▪ The more militant and threatening the pressure from below, the more vigorously the propertied classes supported repressive measures.
▪ The propertied class is overrepresented in the governing institutions of all advanced capitalist states.
▪ There is no reason to suppose that the rest of the propertied classes were any more heavily burdened than the peerage.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But the number of those who compromised their faith was largest among the propertied and those well up in the social hierarchy.
▪ However, a resurgence of working-class agitation during 1833-4 alarmed the Whig government and the propertied classes in general.
▪ Potentially democratic ideas thus provided a justification for rule by a propertied oligarchy.
▪ The propertied class is overrepresented in the governing institutions of all advanced capitalist states.
▪ The propertied class which called itself liberal was immediately opposed to universal suffrage and to the masses in general.
▪ The propertied classes rallied to the government and called for a halt to all disturbances.
▪ The more militant and threatening the pressure from below, the more vigorously the propertied classes supported repressive measures.
▪ This was opposed, not simply to kings and aristocrats, but to the propertied minority.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Propertied

Propertied \Prop"er*tied\, a. Possessing property; holding real estate, or other investments of money. ``The propertied and satisfied classes.''
--M. Arnold.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
propertied

"holding property," 1760, from property (n.).

Wiktionary
propertied

a. That owns property; especially that owns land or real estate and derives income from it

WordNet
propertied

adj. owning land or securities as a principal source of revenue [syn: property-owning]

Usage examples of "propertied".

Marcel, the rage of the Jacquerie offered him an added weapon, which he seized in a fatal choice that was to lose him the support of the propertied class.

Drawn from clerks, students, dissenting clergy, and from the propertied class, especially women, they were articulate and usually literate.

Count of Flanders intervened, frightening the propertied class and giving the court urgent reason to settle with Paris.

In 1391 murder, seizure of property, and forcible conversion of the Jews began, and this taste of violence soon turned into general insurrection against the clergy and propertied class, culminating in four days of terror in Barcelona.

A whole legion of propertied Marsi dead, and the nation of the Marsi has already lodged a protest with the Senate .

Rome has taken to keeping their propertied men away from home so long that their farms or businesses have fallen into bankruptcy from inadequate care, and all the men lucky enough to have survived a career fighting for Rome have come home to find themselves in debt to Roman landowners or local businessmen with the Roman citizenship.

And, just as history has demonstrated that the propertied men of the Italian nations are not one iota inferior as soldiers to the propertied men of Rome, so too will the next few years show Rome that the Head Count men of the Italian nations are not one iota inferior as soldiers to the Head Count men of Rome!

Quite naturally the propertied classes wanted to believe that Hitler would protect them against Bolshevism, and equally naturally the Socialists hated having to admit that the man who had slaughtered their comrades was a Socialist himself.

A young girl whose soul was placed by magical union into a replica of herself made of the unusually propertied ruddy-golden metal, orichalcum, which only the Adantideans knew and used.