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Propertyless

Propertyless meaning

Without property—things owned. | Having no properties—attributes or abstract qualities associated with an object.

Example sentences (4)

But capitalism is also a global system; it therefore forces workers to compete on a world scale, driving the formation of a larger and larger class of poor and propertyless workers, from which huge corporations can pick and choose.

As secular political leader of Nauvoo, Joseph Smith also set aside collective farms which insured that the propertyless poor could maintain a living and provide for themselves and their families.

Many of the people were compelled to sell their houses and lands, with the result that a sharp social cleavage arose: on the one hand a mass of propertyless indigents, on the other a small circle of the rich.

The exchange was part of the terms of the Treaty of Lausanne which ended the war. citation The following era was marked by instability, as over 1.5 million propertyless Greek refugees from Turkey had to be integrated into Greek society.