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stateless

stateless adjective: of a system or protocol, such that it does not keep a persistent state between transactions.

Adjective

stateless (not comparable)

  1. Of a system or protocol, such that it does not keep a persistent state between transactions.
    • A stateless server treats each request independently.
  2. (dated) Without state or pomp.
  3. Without a state or nationality; not subject to any state.
    • UN Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons
    • The ability to shift profits to low-tax countries by locating intellectual property in them[…]is often assumed to be the preserve of high-tech companies.[…]current tax rules make it easy for all sorts of firms to generate[…]“stateless income”: profit subject to tax in a jurisdiction that is neither...2013 June 22, “T time”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, archived from the original on 11 Mar 2023, page 68
  4. Neither believing in nor supporting the idea of nations.

stateless meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Bengali and Indonesian

stateless in Hindi

(law) without a state or nationality
नागरिकताहीन nāgriktāhīn

stateless in Tamil

நாடற்ற

stateless in Bengali

(law) without a state or nationality
রাষ্ট্রহীনতা raśṭrohinota

stateless in Indonesian

(law) without a state or nationality
tak bernegara

Synonyms of stateless

Antonyms

Origin of stateless

From state + -less.

Words formed from stateless

Questions about stateless

What does stateless mean?
Stateless means of a system or protocol, such that it does not keep a persistent state between transactions.
What is stateless in Hindi?
Stateless in Hindi is नागरिकताहीन (nāgriktāhīn). See Stateless meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is stateless?
Stateless is an adjective.

Words near stateless in the dictionary

  1. statehouse
  2. statehouses
  3. Stateira
  4. stateism
  5. stateisms
  6. stateless
  7. stateless capitalism
  8. stateless person
  9. statelessly
  10. statelessness
  11. statelet

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: stateless (page history and authors); stateless (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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