Definitions
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- adjective Having no trade or traffic.
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- adjective Without
trade . - adjective Without a
trade (occupation or line of work).
Etymologies
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Examples
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How can these thousands who, because of "blind-alley" occupations, come to their majority tradeless and often depleted, having no ability to build and own a home -- how can these who have no stake in the country aid in making the republic what it ought to be?
The Minister and the Boy A Handbook for Churchmen Engaged in Boys' Work Allan Hoben
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There were very many such helpless, tradeless men pacing the streets of Paris, when the fever of the revolution was cooled down, and ordinary business ways began to take their course.
A Tramp's Wallet stored by an English goldsmith during his wanderings in Germany and France William Duthie
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It is a tradeless place living on the monuments which attract strangers, and like many a city famous for stirring history, seems utterly exhausted.
The Land of The Blessed Virgin; Sketches and Impressions in Andalusia 1919
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Already one sees country yelping at country all over the modern world, not only in the matter of warlike issues, but with a note of quite furious commercial rivalry -- quite furious and, indeed, quite insane, since its ideal of trading enormously with absolutely ruined and tradeless foreigners, exporting everything and importing nothing, is obviously outside reason altogether.
Anticipations Of the Reaction of Mechanical and Scientific Progress upon Human life and Thought 1906
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At last he was discharged, a friendless, tradeless, penniless man, without a past, and with very little to look to in the future.
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At last he was discharged, a friendless, tradeless, penniless man, without a past, and with very little to look to in the future.
The Captain of the Polestar Arthur Conan Doyle 1894
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We are in a large degree a landless, a tradeless and a homeless race.
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He saw how much harder it would be for a poor tradeless man like
There & Back George MacDonald 1864
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Alas! sunshine and storm pass across the scene, clothing the waters and the hills with alternate beauty and grandeur; but all changes come alike to the poor, tradeless, bookless, spiritless town.
Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber Or The Influence of Romanism on Trade, Justice, and Knowledge James Aitken Wylie 1849
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