leveler
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8.6
- noun
- /ˈlɛvələr/
- US
:
igualador
- History shows that many revolutions were led by levelers who sought to eliminate social hierarchies.
- a great leveler
Examples
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The idea was that the federal government was the great leveler.
Academic text (1996) -
The vast, dirty city was a great leveler.
Fiction book (1990) -
Death is so very important; we might call it the great leveler.
Blog text (15) -
Indeed, death is the common leveler, and all dead notarios are equal.
Academic text (2007) -
Travel is the great leveler, the great teacher, bitter as medicine, crueler than mirror glass.
Blog text (4) -
Contrary to the implied belief of some, money is not the great leveler; it's the lowest common denominator.
Blog text (17) -
And death, as the great leveler, obfuscates the divisions of tribal and racial differences.
Blog text (27) -
We reach an equality of sorts in this place of the wounded and dying, that great leveler, where distinctions vanish, where there is no prejudice or hatred, where all becomes equal.
Blog text (10) -
The Internet is a powerful leveler that promotes equality by providing access to the same information for everyone.
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In discussions about social justice, advocates often refer to education as a leveler that reduces differences between classes.
Synonyms
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4.1
A policy or program that reduces social and income differences between people
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7.2
A tool or person that makes something more level
Antonyms
How Egalitarian
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Leveler comes from the word level, which means 'to make even or flat'. In 17th-century England a political group called the Levelers used that image to ask for equal rights, so a leveler is someone who wants to remove social differences and make people more equal.