have-not

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have-not

noun have-nots

contrastive, idiomatic, usually A poor or underprivileged person. A longtime advocate for racial and social justice with a degree from Virginia Commonwealth University, Walker, 40, got into politics at the urging of Edwards, an African American woman widely praised as a bridge-builder between the city’s haves and have-nots.
Opposite: have
idiomatic, uncommon One who does not have some (contextually specified) thing.

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@misc{have_not_2026,
  title = {have-not},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/have-not},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}