What is the meaning/definition of oppression?

Question

This would be a great help if the answer is in one sentence.

Answer 1

this word basically means that you are empowering something or someone, the term derives from the idea of being weighted down.      

it is a word that gives the sence that another group or ethnicity are inferior of yourself or whoever you are refering to.

Answer 2

Oppression is the negative outcome experienced by people targeted by the cruel exercise of power in a society or social group. It is particularly closely associated with nationalism and derived social systems, wherein identity is built by antagonism to the other. ...

Answer 3

To govern things with tyranny

Answer 4

Oppression is the act of using power to empower and/or privilege a group at the expense of disempowering, marginalizing, silencing, and subordinating another. Note: Oppression does not need established organizational support; it can be rendered on a much smaller individual scale. It is particularly closely associated with nationalism and derived social systems, wherein identity is built by antagonism to the other. The term itself derives from the idea of being "weighted down."

Answer 5

The state of being kept down by unjust use of force or authority