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  • noun Alternative spelling of have nots.

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Examples

  • The 99 percent refers to the have-nots: that is, everyone else.

    NYT > Home Page By THE LEARNING NETWORK 2011

  • Verizon - and the have-nots, which is essentially everybody else, is only getting wider, said Kevin Smithen, an analyst for Macquarie Securities.

    NYT > Home Page By STEVE LOHR 2011

  • In short, over the last several decades, the religious institutional ties of have-nots in America, especially men, seem to be weakening.

    American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010

  • In many respects the least widely recognized of the three massive social transformations whose links with religion we are examining in this chapter and the next is the steadily widening gap between haves and have-nots in America.

    American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010

  • In the second half of the nineteenth century the Industrial Revolution brought in its train an unprecedented cleavage in American society between haves and have-nots, both urban and rural.

    American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010

  • In short, over the last three to four decades Americans have been increasingly polarized into haves and have-nots—living increasingly segregated and unequal lives.

    American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010

  • Our country needs resources, we need jobs, we need transparency, we need to find inside of each of us values that educate every American's child properly, pay our teachers, create jobs, restructure corporate executive pay, pay employees fairly, and more importantly not isolate the have-nots from the haves.

    Leslie Hendry: Generation WTF Leslie Hendry 2011

  • Our country needs resources, we need jobs, we need transparency, we need to find inside of each of us values that educate every American's child properly, pay our teachers, create jobs, restructure corporate executive pay, pay employees fairly, and more importantly not isolate the have-nots from the haves.

    Leslie Hendry: Generation WTF Leslie Hendry 2011

  • For the have-nots, beaches and resorts are places to find employment and are seldom a place of relaxation.

    Takiyah Butler: Miami: The B- Side Takiyah Butler 2011

  • Or will the struggle deteriorate into an undeclared conflict between the haves and have-nots?

    The Nation of More « L.E. Modesitt, Jr. – The Official Website 2009

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