propertied
propertied
Definition
prop·er·tied (präp′ər 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.
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