Definitions
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- adjective Without
property —things owned. - adjective Having no
properties —attributes or abstract qualities associated with an object.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of those who work for wages especially manual or industrial laborers
Etymologies
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Examples
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And for decades they resisted extending the franchise to less favored groups such as propertyless working men, immigrants, racial minorities, and women.
Fog City Journal FCJ Editor 2010
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And for decades they resisted extending the franchise to less favored groups such as propertyless working men, immigrants, racial minorities, and women.
Gorilla Radio blog 2009
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And for decades they resisted extending the franchise to less favored groups such as propertyless working men, immigrants, racial minorities, and women.
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In the bourgeois mind a class struggle is a terrible and hateful thing, and yet that is precisely what socialism is, -- a world-wide class struggle between the propertyless workers and the propertied masters of workers.
Preface 2010
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Sure, laws against theft hurt the utterly destitute and completely propertyless, but they sure do keep society together and prosperous for the other 99%.
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Mossoff: Cohen agrees that there can be propertyless value and valueless property.
Archive 2009-01-01 Rebecca Tushnet 2009
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Even many radical English whigs firmly believed that the propertyless were not fit to exercise political authority.
Matthew Yglesias » George Will’s Odd Aversion to Democracy 2009
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To forestall that danger — specifically, the danger that the propertyless majority would tyranically tax away the property of the minority — they constructed their beautiful governmental framework of limited and enumerated powers, with its checks and balances for extra restraint.
Bracing Brew Myron Magnet 2010
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To forestall that danger — specifically, the danger that the propertyless majority would tyranically tax away the property of the minority — they constructed their beautiful governmental framework of limited and enumerated powers, with its checks and balances for extra restraint.
Bracing Brew Myron Magnet 2010
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To forestall that danger — specifically, the danger that the propertyless majority would tyranically tax away the property of the minority — they constructed their beautiful governmental framework of limited and enumerated powers, with its checks and balances for extra restraint.
Bracing Brew Myron Magnet 2010
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