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Definition of "landless" []

  • Owning or having no land. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "landless" in a sentence
  • "Mugabe promised land to the 'landless' - and proceeded the parcel the land out to his senior loyalists - and even in some cases, the 'new' landowners have evicted the people living on that land."
  • "Fifteen years ago, he survived one of the deadliest land conflicts in Brazil, when police killed 10 of the so-called landless activists in an encampment on land they had occupied."
  • "If they were somehow to make common cause with other restive rural-born Chinese, such as landless farmers or migrant workers, they'd be extremely hard to suppress."
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