propertyless en · ADJ
Etymology
Etymology tree English property Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁- Proto-Indo-European *lewHs-der. Proto-Germanic *leusaną Proto-Germanic *lausaz Proto-Germanic *-lausaz Proto-West Germanic *-laus Old English -lēas Middle English -les English -less English propertyless From property + -less.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Without property—things owned.
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:How is it, then, that they are obliged to remain homeless, landless, propertyless, resourceless?
1900, Basil A Bouroff, The Impending Crisis:
- (not-comparable) Having no properties—attributes or abstract qualities associated with an object.
Deriveds
Translations (2)
pl bezwłasnościowy (without things owned) · pl bezwłasnościowy (without associated attributes)