have-not

noun

ˈhav-ˌnät 

-ˈnät

: one that is poor especially in material wealth

Examples of have-not in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Among American art museums, there are haves and have-nots, with big-city, legacy galleries owning boatloads of great art--much of it in storage--and smaller, newer places in the provinces making do with nary a Renoir, Rothko, or Rembrandt. —Christian Schneider, National Review, 12 June 2025

Indeed, some are worried that the world will divide into the AGI haves and AGI have-nots, partially due to the exorbitant cost that AGI might involve. —Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 6 June 2025

Charting a divided league’s haves and have-nots Ranking the top 25 college football teams: Who’s biggest winner after the spring portal window? —The Athletic Uk Staff, New York Times, 22 May 2025

The conversation about baseball’s haves and have-nots bled into the offseason, as the Dodgers, Yankees and Mets tossed around hundreds of millions while nine teams declined to sign any player to a multiyear contract. —Andy McCullough, New York Times, 21 May 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1836, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for have-not

• aeronaut
• aforethought
• afterthought
• apricot
• argonaut
• astronaut
• camelot
• coffeepot
• concordat
• cosmonaut
• entrepot
• flowerpot

Kids Definition

have-not

noun

ˈhav-ˌnät,

-ˈnät

: one that is poor in material wealth