levellers
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noun
- A person or thing that levels.“A soil leveller is used to prepare the field before sowing.”
- (especially) Something that transcends people’s differences (such as social class, wealth, etc.); something that tends to eliminate advantages and disadvantages.
- A person holding a political opinion in favor of eliminating disparities between the haves and the have nots.
- An equaliser.
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