Definition of have-nots in US English:
have-nots
plural nounˈhæv ˌnɑtsˈhav ˌnäts
usually the have-notsinformal Economically disadvantaged people.
lack of access to information will perpetuate the division between the haves and have-nots
Example sentencesExamples
- The average daily income of these have-nots is less than $1 a day.
- What he wants to achieve is an alliance of the rich against the have-nots.
- They also claim the gap between the haves and the have-nots would become wider.
- They do not think that the gap between the haves and the have-nots was growing.
- Here's another way to look at it: The more the have-nots push, the more they lose.
- Disparities between the haves and the have-nots are subsumed in false responses.
- And while the tax cuts for the haves are permanent, those for the have-nots are good for only one year.
- The more extreme the income inequality, the greater the psychic distance between the have-nots and the haves.
- As in France it looks like the ballot here will be an uprising of the have-nots against the haves.
- Reynolds saw the inequity in society and understood the frustration and alienation of the have-nots.
- You have got to stop this new tendency to make the poor, or the have-nots, pay for their problems.
- He sees the police acting as a tool of the haves in society, working against the have-nots.
- So a gap has been formed between the rich and the poor or the haves and the have-nots.
- John Edwards talked about two Americas divided by class, the haves and the have-nots.
- I realised not only that there are the haves and the have-nots, but that the haves organise to make sure you don't get any of it.
- Kim Beazley is right to expose the tax cuts as being skewed to the haves over the have-nots, but he is wrong to make it his battleground.
- But what came out of those years was an ever-wider gap between the incomes and experiences of the haves and the have-nots.
- The growing gulf between the haves and the have-nots has led the latter to take the law into their own hands.
- It allows the gap between the haves and the have-nots, the strong and the weak, to grow.
- For a change, try sharing with the have-nots and experience real joy and contentment.