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propertyless

propertyless adjective: without property—things owned.

Adjective

propertyless (not comparable)

  1. Without property—things owned.
    • How is it, then, that they are obliged to remain homeless, landless, propertyless, resourceless?1900, Basil A Bouroff, The Impending Crisis
    • For the greatest lunacy of all is that not one of them can see the smallest reason why any human being should be allowed to live unless in addition to supporting himself he can produce a privately appropriable profit for a shareholder or a rent for a landlord. Why, they argue, should anyone...1933 July 16 (date written), [George] Bernard Shaw, “An Explanation”, in The Political Madhouse in America and Nearer Home: A Lecture, London: Constable & Co, published August 1933, →OCLC, page 8
  2. Having no properties—attributes or abstract qualities associated with an object.

Origin of propertyless

From property + -less.

Words formed from propertyless

Questions about propertyless

What does propertyless mean?
Propertyless means without property—things owned.
What part of speech is propertyless?
Propertyless is an adjective.

Words near propertyless in the dictionary

  1. property rights
  2. property tax
  3. property taxes
  4. property-theoretic
  5. propertying
  6. propertyless
  7. propertylessness
  8. propetandrol
  9. propfan
  10. propfans
  11. prophaethontid

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