haves

Speech parts

1. haves - Noun

2. haves - Verb

Meaning

haves pl (plural only)

The wealthy or privileged, contrasted to those who are poor or deprived: the have nots.

haves

(nonstandard) third-person singular simple present indicative of have

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Examples

Much of human history has consisted of unequal conflicts between the haves and the have-nots. Jared Diamond

my father moved through dooms of love through sames of am through haves of give singing each morning out of each night my father moved through depths of height. E. E. Cummings

Richness in the world is a result of other people's poverty. We should begin to shorten the abyss between haves and have-nots. Eduardo Galeano

It's not white versus black any more, it's haves versus have-nots. Unless the black middle-classes unite to promote the interests of the black underclass, tension between them is inevitable. What we, the black middle class have to do, is think of a strategy to avert that. Henry Louis Gates

We do not accept that ours will ever be a nation of haves and have-nots. We must always be a nation of haves and soon-to-haves. Mitch Daniels

Many of my friends and family are scratching it out somewhere decidedly south of the ever widening gap between the haves and have nots, looking at losing their homes, colleges they can't afford and healthcare they can't avail themselves of. Don Cheadle

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