Definition of "propertied" [prop•er•tied]

• Owning land or securities as a principal source of revenue. (adjective)

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• "An idea attractive to many of the have not's (including many of the young) and anathema to the have's (the "propertied" class)."
• "A proletariat -- those without property of any kind except their own labor power -- made its appearance, dependent on the propertied to employ them."
• "In the bourgeois mind a class struggle is a terrible and hateful thing, and yet that is precisely what socialism is, -- a world-wide class struggle between the propertyless workers and the propertied masters of workers."