propertyless
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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
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
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
The Church might preach equality, humility and the list of virtues; but nevertheless that did not give the propertyless man a vote.
From History of the Great American Fortunes, Vol. I Conditions in Settlement and Colonial Times by Gustavus, Myers
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