propertyless
Speech parts
1. propertyless - Adjective
2. propertyless - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
of those who work for wages especially manual or industrial laborers
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It originated for the purpose of maintaining the division of society into an owning-and-exploiting class and a propertyless dependent class - that is, for a criminal purpose. No State known to history originated in any other manner, or for any other purpose.
party of the propertyless proletariat
As secular political leader of Nauvoo, Joseph Smith also set aside collective farms which insured that the propertyless poor could maintain a living and provide for themselves and their families.
The exchange was part of the terms of the Treaty of Lausanne which ended the war. citation The following era was marked by instability, as over 1.5 million propertyless Greek refugees from Turkey had to be integrated into Greek society.
Many of the people were compelled to sell their houses and lands, with the result that a sharp social cleavage arose: on the one hand a mass of propertyless indigents, on the other a small circle of the rich.