Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Destitute of resources.

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  • adjective Destitute of resources.

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  • adjective Without resources.

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  • adjective lacking or deficient in natural resources

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Examples

  • But in reality, the tiny, resourceless government provided neither guns nor men nor mounts.20 It provided no uniforms, provisions, or barracks.

    EMPIRE OF THE SUMMER MOON S. C. Gwynne 2010

  • Michael Bloomberg is on pace to spend more than $100 million on his reelection campaign — more than anyone has ever spent to become mayor of anything, and many, many times more than his effectively resourceless Democratic challenger, City Comptroller Bill Thompson.

    The Last Days of Candidate Bloomberg 2009

  • There is virtually nothing in the dirt-poor, resourceless, and strategically impotent Afghanistan that has anything worth dying for, save for a mythical pipeline that no corporation in its right mind would build due to the volatility of the area, which has existed for centuries.

    The Ongoing Saga of Afghanistan 2009

  • As noble as his financial ideas may be, they left him cut-off from his usual union pocketbooks, friendless and resourceless in an election year.

    Will Schwartz: Is it Right To Disapprove of David Paterson? 2009

  • Michael Bloomberg is on pace to spend more than $100 million on his reelection campaign — more than anyone has ever spent to become mayor of anything, and many, many times more than his effectively resourceless Democratic challenger, City Comptroller Bill Thompson.

    The Last Days of Candidate Bloomberg 2009

  • But he himself was nearly as resourceless as a child new born to the world.

    Renegade's Magic Hobb, Robin 2008

  • Still, SNAP has grown from a group of eager, but resourceless students, to a highly regarded organization instrumental to progressive electoral gains and growth in progressive infrastructure.

    John Riley: Building the Progressive Movement with SNAP 2008

  • Man will open his heart and his wallet to the more resourceless.

    Astrology for Enlightenment Michelle Karén 2008

  • Then she told him that one of the chief causes of her sadness and her tears was the thought that, on the morrow of her death, he and Marie would be left almost resourceless, with but a slender stock of money, and no friend but God.

    La Grenadiere 2007

  • Then she told him that one of the chief causes of her sadness and her tears was the thought that, on the morrow of her death, he and Marie would be left almost resourceless, with but a slender stock of money, and no friend but God.

    La Grenadiere 2007

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