单词 | overprivileged |
释义 | overprivilegedadj.n. Possessing or enjoying too many privileges. Also as n. (with the and plural agreement): people who are too privileged as a class. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > advantage > [adjective] > provided with advantages > excessively overprivileged1912 1912 S. Mathews Gospel & Mod. Man iii. 255 To get justice for others by compelling the over-privileged to give it to them may be the very quintessence of love. 1930 L. M. Gilbreth in C. A. Beard Toward Civilization xii. 247 An increasing percentage of women as well as men, privileged and overprivileged, as well as underprivileged, want economic independence. 1973 Nature 16 Mar. 210/2 The weak and the poor are under-privileged because we are over-privileged. 2000 M. Barrowcliffe Girlfriend 44 vi. 180 The worst that can happen to you on a camp site is that you camp next to some bunch of underprivileged teenagers with a ghettoblaster or, worse, overprivileged teenagers with a guitar. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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