People who have wealth or possessions, usually contrasted with 'have-nots,' those who are poor.
From the verb 'have' plus the plural marker. The phrase 'haves and have-nots' was popularized in the 20th century to describe class division, though it exists in various forms back centuries.
The term 'haves and have-nots' is a linguistic failure of imagination—it's easy to describe what you're not rather than who you are, which mirrors how societies often define poverty only as 'lack' rather than as a complete human condition.
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