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propertied Definition

prop·er·tied (präpər tēd)

adjective

owning property

propertied Usage Examples

Modifies a noun

  • class: The seat of power is shifting from the propertied classes to the producing masses.
  • elite: Its 'native allies ' came from propertied elites who favored capitalism over socialism.
  • man: By a reversal of values, He transformed my relative ease as a propertied man into the misery of a pauper.
  • interest: But where conservatism seeks regulation to protect moneyed and propertied interests, socialism seeks to regulate society in a collective and democratic way.
  • electorate: That was considered much too dangerous a privilege even for our small propertied electorate.
  • male: It is propertied males who have these rights and indeed it was they alone in the first place who could vote.