vagrancy

Noun

Meaning

The quality or state of being a vagrant; a wandering without a settled home; an unsettled condition; vagabondism.

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Examples

If, after obtaining Buddhahood, anyone in my land gets tossed in jail on a vagrancy rap, may I not attain highest perfect enlightenment. Gary Snyder

A cop won't pick you up for vagrancy in Los Angeles if you wear a fancy polo shirt and a pair of sunglasses. But if there is dust on your shoes and that sweater you wear is thick like the sweaters they wear in the snow countries, he'll grab you. John Fante

In Irish law, busking is considered vagrancy - you can be arrested for it. It's risky asking people for money in public. So it's not like it's a high-art job. And people who do it as a high-art job make very little money. Glen Hansard

Enclosures were seen as directly linked to rural unemployment and depopulation, vagrancy, food shortages and, accordingly, inflation. Source: Internet

The elite-controlled legislature and president passed vagrancy laws that removed people from their land and the great majority of Salvadorans became landless. Source: Internet

If we are serious about addressing this crisis then we cannot maintain a permissive posture toward open drug use and vagrancy. Source: Internet

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