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dispossessive

dispossessive adjective: that dispossesses.

Adjective

dispossessive (comparative more dispossessive, superlative most dispossessive)

  1. That dispossesses.
    • Work for hire is a way of making these workers submit to the kind of routine, dispossessive, political, and legal alienation to which most other working people have been long accustomed.2012, Matt Stahl, Unfree Masters: Popular Music and the Politics of Work

Forms of dispossessive

comparativemore dispossessive
superlativemost dispossessive

Origin of dispossessive

From dispossess + -ive.

Words formed from dispossessive

Words that rhyme with dispossessive

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Questions about dispossessive

What does dispossessive mean?
Dispossessive means that dispossesses.
What part of speech is dispossessive?
Dispossessive is an adjective.

Words near dispossessive in the dictionary

  1. dispossessest
  2. dispossesseth
  3. dispossessing
  4. dispossession
  5. dispossessions
  6. dispossessive
  7. dispossessively
  8. dispossessor
  9. dispossessors
  10. dispossessory
  11. dispossest

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