propertyless
adjEtymology From property + -less.
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 organize the work of propertyless men merely to produce their own food?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.
- Derived terms
- propertylessness