propertyless

American  

[prahp-er-tee-lis] / ˈprɑp ər ti lɪs /

adjective

1. not owning any property, such as land, buildings, or a business; being or belonging to a social class whose members do not own property.

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Other Word Forms

• propertylessness noun

Example Sentences

It doesn’t matter whether they are citizens or aliens; free, imprisoned or enslaved; enfranchised or disenfranchised; adults or children; propertied or propertyless.

From Washington Post • Nov. 19, 2021

Cities contained a permanently impoverished class of sailors, laborers, disabled people, and propertyless widows and their families.

From Textbooks • Jan. 18, 2018

Washington and Hamilton may have been on the side of the well-heeled, but they believed in "constitutionalism" even when its application worked in favor of the poor and the propertyless.

From Time Magazine Archive

Just after his speech, D'Aubuisson presented the agricultural workers with formal title to the lands they had farmed for years as propertyless tenants.

From Time Magazine Archive

It was the propertyless only for whom the execution of law was intended.

From Great Fortunes from Railroads by Myers, Gustavus