landless
Americanadjective
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Etymology
Origin of landless
before 1000; Middle English; Old English landlēas. See land, -less
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Under Árbenz, Guatemala implemented a land reform program in 1952 that gave landless farmworkers their own undeveloped plots.
From Salon ● Jan. 18, 2026
Many Nama are landless and live in informal settlements with inadequate access to water and electricity, or in remote areas, far from schools and hospitals.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2025
The Gabrieleño tribes, however, are among roughly two dozen unrecognized and landless tribes in California that have initiated petitions for federal recognition by the Department of Interior’s Bureau of Indian Affairs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2023
Not all alleged witches were poor and landless, however, and sometimes hunts served to dispossess them.
From Scientific American ● May 31, 2023
It had never belonged to us, we had never prospered to the extent where we could buy, and Nathan, himself the son of a landless man, had inherited nothing.
From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya
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