stateless
adjEtymology From state + -less.
1
Computer, Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Science, Sciences 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
Law 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 the location of the factors of production that generate the income nor where the parent firm is domiciled.2013 June 22, “T time”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, archived from the original on 11 Mar 2023, page 68:
1 more example
- The department believes making changes will help stateless people get better access to legal immigration status and benefits. Typically, people around the world who are stateless have challenges including an inability to get jobs or government services and difficulty getting travel documents, a DHS official told CNN.2021 December 15, Geneva Sands, “US promises to define ‘statelessness,’ a first for the federal government”, in CNN, archived from the original on 04 Nov 2022:
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Government, Human sciences, Philosophy, Politics, Sciences Neither believing in nor supporting the idea of nations.
- Synonyms
- citizenshipless, countryless, nationless
- Antonyms
- stateful
- Derived terms
- stateless capitalism, statelessly, statelessness, stateless person