propertied
Example Sentences
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The people make demands upon the state, striking fear in the hearts of the propertied classes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2025
County, Sepulveda Boulevard, 40 miles from Mission Hills to Long Beach, named for Francisco Xavier Sepulveda, the propertied pioneer rancher and paterfamilias to the influential founding family.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 10, 2022
It doesn’t matter whether they are citizens or aliens; free, imprisoned or enslaved; enfranchised or disenfranchised; adults or children; propertied or propertyless.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 19, 2021
When America was founded, only white, propertied men could vote.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2021
Thus the bourgeois view is not only that of the propertied class, but also that of most of those who have no property.
From Twentieth Century Socialism What It Is Not; What It Is: How It May Come by Edmond Kelly
