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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

dispossessive en · ADJ

Etymology

From dispossess + -ive.

Meanings

  1. That dispossesses.
    • Work for hire is a way of making these workers submit to the kind of routine, dispossessive, political, and legal alienation to which most other working people have been long accustomed. 2012, Matt Stahl, Unfree Masters: Popular Music and the Politics of Work:

Forms

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more dispossessive Degree=Cmp lexicographic
most dispossessive Degree=Sup lexicographic

Deriveds

dispossessively