Flu shot (Image: Spencer Platt/Getty Images News/Getty Images) Misconceptions. Developing mild flu-like symptoms does imply the flu shot causes influenza. These side effects are brief and are due to the body's immune response. Some concern was raised about the potential link between flu shots containing the preservative Thimerosal and autism in recent years.
Definition: Oppression is a type of injustice. Oppression is the inequitable use of authority, law, or physical force to prevent others from being free or equal. The verb oppress can mean to keep someone down in a social sense, such as an authoritarian government might do in an oppressive society.
Wiktionary(1.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition: 1  op-ed(Noun) A newspaper page containing signed articles by commentators expressing viewpoints that may not agree with those espoused by the editorial board, traditionally printed opposite the editorial page.