propertylessとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

propertyless (not comparable)

1. Without property—things owned.
   • 1900, Basil A Bouroff, The Impending Crisis:

     How is it, then, that they are obliged to remain homeless, landless, propertyless, resourceless?

   • 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:

     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?

2. Having no properties—attributes or abstract qualities associated with an object.

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