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landless

Adjective

Meaning

Having no property in land.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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The sea-road is good for wanderers and landless men. There is quenching of thirst on the grey paths of the winds, and the flying clouds to still the sting of lost dreams. Robert E. Howard

Macro-economic policy had accelerated the "expulsion" of landless peasants from the countryside leading to the formation of a nomadic migrant labor force moving from one metropolitan area to another. Michel Chossudovsky

Who is it climbs the summit of the road? Only the beggar bumming his dark load. Who was it cried to see the falling star? Only the landless soldier lost in war. And did a thousand years go by in vain? And does another thousand start again? Alun Lewis

I was born in a family of landless peasants, in Azinhaga, a small village in the province of Ribatejo, on the right bank of the Almonda River, around a hundred kilometres north-east of Lisbon. José Saramago

the landless peasantry Source: Internet

Across the South, sharecropping evolved, in which landless black and white farmers worked land owned by others in return for a share of the profits. Source: Internet

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