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Human rights are not only violated by terrorism, repression or assassination, but also by unfair economic structures that creates huge inequalities.
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Meaning of "repression" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF REPRESSION

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF REPRESSION

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Repression is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES REPRESSION MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of repression in the English dictionary

The definition of repression in the dictionary is the act or process of repressing or the condition of being repressed.


WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE REPRESSION

representative
representatively
representativeness
representee
representer
representment
representor
repress
repressed
represser
repressibility
repressible
repressibly
repressionist
repressive
repressively
repressiveness
repressor
repressurise
repressurize

WORDS THAT END LIKE REPRESSION

admission
commission
compression
conversion
depression
discussion
emission
expression
impression
mission
obsession
passion
permission
possession
pression
profession
progression
session
submission
suppression
transmission

Synonyms and antonyms of repression in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «REPRESSION»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «repression» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of repression

Translation of «repression» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF REPRESSION

Find out the translation of repression to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of repression from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «repression» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

镇压
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

represión
570 millions of speakers

English

repression
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

दमन
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

القمع
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

репрессии
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

repressão
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

দমন
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

répression
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Penindasan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Unterdrückung
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

弾圧
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

억압
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Penindasan
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

áp
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

அடக்குமுறை
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

दडपशाही
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

baskı
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

repressione
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

represje
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

репресії
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

represiune
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

καταστολή
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

onderdrukking
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

repression
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

undertrykkelse
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of repression

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «REPRESSION»

The term «repression» is quite widely used and occupies the 30.051 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «REPRESSION» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «repression» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «repression» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about repression

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10 QUOTES WITH «REPRESSION»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word repression.
1
Karl Abraham
The onset of mania occurs when repression is no longer able to resist the assaults of the repressed instincts.
2
Conrad Black
The Arabs could have peace tomorrow if sufficient numbers of Palestinians were not content to be used as cannon fodder in fruitless assaults on Israel, even as the surrounding Arab powers distract the Arab masses with the red herring of Israel while retarding their countries with their repression and corruption.
3
Lionel Blue
Early on I saw the repression and idolatry of Stalinism, and when it cracked, I was open to religion again.
4
W. E. B. Du Bois
The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.
5
Bob Brown
I have seen such an immense change from the total repression and criminality of homosexuality in my lifetime. It does make me much more buoyant and optimistic about the future. If that change can occur in that time there's hope for many other changes.
6
Zbigniew Brzezinski
Palestinian terrorism has to be rejected and condemned, yes. But it should not be translated defacto into a policy of support for a really increasingly brutal repression, colonial settlements and a new wall.
7
Noam Chomsky
By very conservative estimates, Turkish repression of Kurds in the 1990s falls in the category of Kosovo. It peaked in the early 1990s; one index is the flight of more than a million Kurds from the countryside to the unofficial Kurdish capital, Diyarbakir, from 1990 to 1994, as the Turkish army was devastating the countryside.
8
Angela Davis
My name became known because I was, one might say accidentally the target of state repression and because so many people throughout the country and other parts of the world organized around the demand for my freedom.
9
Michel Foucault
If repression has indeed been the fundamental link between power, knowledge, and sexuality since the classical age, it stands to reason that we will not be able to free ourselves from it except at a considerable cost.
10
Pope Francis
Human rights are not only violated by terrorism, repression or assassination, but also by unfair economic structures that creates huge inequalities.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «REPRESSION»

Discover the use of repression in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to repression and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Freudian Repression: Conversation Creating the Unconscious
This book presents a reinterpretation of Freud to show how language can be expressive and repressive.
Michael Billig, 1999
2
Modernizing Repression: Police Training and Nation Building ...
As American troops became bogged down first in Iraq and then Afghanistan, a key component of US strategy was to build up local police and security forces in an attempt to establish law and order.
Jeremy Kuzmarov, 2012
3
Paths to State Repression: Human Rights Violations and ...
This book is invaluable to all who wish to better understand why central authorities violate and restrict human rights and how states can break their cycles of conflict.
Christian Davenport, 2000
4
Repression and Recovery: Modern American Poetry and the ...
A poststructuralist literary history - Nelson's premise that the history of modernist culture is one we no longer know we have forgotten and he aims to recover the political questions many forgotten modern poets looked straight in the eye.
Cary Nelson, 1989
5
Disturbing the Universe: Power and Repression in Adolescent ...
Characters in these novels must learn to negotiate the levels of power that exist in the myriad social institutions within which they function, including family, church, government, and school.
Roberta S. Trites, 1998
6
Repression and Mobilization
Introduction: repression and mobilization : insights from political science and sociology / Christian Davenport -- Protest mobilization, protest repression, and their interaction / Clark McPhail and John D. McCarthy -- Precarious regimes ...
Christian Davenport, Hank Johnston, Carol McClurg Mueller, 2005
7
Political Repression in Modern America from 1870 to 1976
"Robert Justin Goldstein'sPolitical Repression in Modern Americaprovides the only comprehensive narrative account ever published of significant civil liberties violations concerning political dissidents since the rise of the post-Civil War ...
Robert Justin Goldstein, 2001
8
The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression
Collects and analyzes seventy years of communist crimes that offer details on Kim Sung's Korea, Vietnam under "Uncle Ho," and Cuba under Castro.
Stéphane Courtois, Mark Kramer, 1999
9
Texts and the Repression of Medieval Heresy
Historiographical survey of inquisition texts, from lists of questions to inquisitor's manual, studies their role in the suppression of heresy.
Caterina Bruschi, Peter Biller, 2003
10
Repression, Resistance, and Women in Afghanistan
Provides a comprehensive analysis of the status of women, state policies of modernization, and the struggle by revolutionary groups and women's organizations in Afghanistan, a society where rigid social and cultural traditions are heavily ...
Hafizullah Emadi, 2002

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «REPRESSION»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term repression is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Chinese Repression Threatens Economic Dynamism and Political …
Repression also stultifies China's political evolution to a more mature and stable political order. Democracy provides an important safety valve for popular ... «Cato Institute, Jul 15»
2
Two years after Morsi, Egypt in 'repression': Amnesty
Cairo (AFP) - Two years after the army ousted president Mohamed Morsi, Egypt has regressed into "all-out repression", with activists jailed in a bid to crush ... «Yahoo News, Jun 15»
3
Repression of rights activists 'routine' in China, says US State …
Repression of activists in China was routine and tens of thousands of political prisoners remained incarcerated, according to the department's annual review of ... «South China Morning Post, Jun 15»
4
EU extends sanctions against Assad, backers for 1 year because of …
... is extending sanctions against Syrian President Bashar Assad and his closest allies for another year, citing continued repression and human rights abuses. «Fox News, May 15»
5
Tibetan Mother Self-Immolates to Protest Repression
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Poroshenko remembers victims of political repression, likens NKVD …
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk, government members and Kyiv officials remembered political repression victims at the ... «Kyiv Post, May 15»
7
Donald Rumsfeld Defends Riots As An Understandable Response …
“While no one condones looting, on the other hand, one can understand the pent-up feelings that may result from decades of repression and people who have ... «ThinkProgress, May 15»
8
Crushing repression of Eritrea's citizens is driving them into migrant …
But they are missing an essential point: the crushing repression of Eritrea's citizens, especially its youth, is as much a driver of the outflow of people as the lack of ... «The Guardian, Apr 15»
9
The Fed's 'repression' has cost savers $470 billion, Swiss Re argues
The financial repression index, shown in the chart above, is based on real government bond yields, the difference between actual yields and fair value, central ... «MarketWatch, Mar 15»
10
Half of Russians Expect Repeat of Soviet-Era Repression, Poll Says
Nearly half of all Russians believe that a return to Soviet-era repression is possible within their lifetime, a poll by the state-run Public Opinion Foundation ... «The Moscow Times, Oct 14»

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