English-French translations for oppression

• oppression
  Parce qu'au bout de cette partie sont l'oppression et la honte, For the end of that game is oppression and shame,
  Elles sont aussi une forme d’oppression. They are also a form of oppression.
  Il n’existe pas de hiérarchie de l’oppression. There is no hierarchy of oppression.
• répression
  Et comme toujours, on déplore des blessés, des emprisonnements et une nouvelle poussée de la répression. Injuries, arrests and further oppression are always the consequence.
  Il ne s'agit pas d'un conflit religieux, mais de formes de répression systématiques. We are not dealing here with a religious conflict but with forms of systematic oppression.
  Ils s'inscrivent dans une longue histoire de trois décennies et demie de répression, de violence et d'oppression d'une population. They are part of a long history of three and a half decades of repression, violence and the oppression of a people.

Definition of oppression

• The exercise of authority or power in a burdensome, cruel, or unjust manner
• The act of oppressing, or the state of being oppressed
• A feeling of being oppressed

Examples

• The oppression of the poor by the aristocracy was one cause of the French Revolution
• Our oppression was lifted by the reappearance of the sun

Related words

• oppressive
• oppressively
• oppressiveness
• antioppression