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nonalienable

nonalienable adjective: synonym of unalienable.

Adjective

nonalienable (not comparable)

  1. Synonym of unalienable.
    • Once crucial way to prevent this tragedy is to designate native territories as nonalienable: tribal property cannot be sold or divided into privately held parcels that individuals can then sell to anyone, including outsiders.2013, Christopher Berry Grey, The Philosophy of Law: An Encyclopedia, page 562
    • Even if we imagine private enterprise market economies achieving income flexibility by arranging transfers of alienable assets to compensate for differences in nonalienable assets, strictly speaking this does not guarantee complete income flexibility.2017, Michael Albert, Robin Hahnel, Quiet Revolution in Welfare Economics, page 255
    Synonyms:
    unalienable

Synonyms of nonalienable

Origin of nonalienable

From non- + alienable.

Questions about nonalienable

What does nonalienable mean?
Nonalienable means synonym of unalienable.
What part of speech is nonalienable?
Nonalienable is an adjective.

Words near nonalienable in the dictionary

  1. nonalgebraically
  2. nonalgorithmic
  3. nonaliased
  4. nonalibi
  5. nonalien
  6. nonalienable
  7. nonalienated
  8. nonalienating
  9. nonalienation
  10. nonaliens
  11. nonalignable

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