landless
IPA: ɫˈændɫʌs
adjective
- Not owning land.
- Not containing any land.
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Examples of "landless" in Sentences
- Almost all the Nat are landless.
- The Kingharia are a landless community.
- The landowner can deny it to the landless.
- Then the people found themselves landless.
- Even if accepted by most landless peasants.
- Most of the people in Mexico were landless.
- A few are landless, and work in as agricultural labourers.
- It is not open to visits by constant invasions of landless.
- In consequence a landless and discontented class is being created.
- The difficult life of the landless labourer found ample echo in the Arts.
- Truth be told we live in 'day to day' kind of landless consumer serfdom I'd really like see abolished.
- The concept behind Crop Mob is that "landless" people still take interest in food production and enjoy an occasional bit of manual labor.
- 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.
- "It is more about the handing over of commercial agricultural land to the 'landless' and not about creating opportunities for emerging farmers as we are meant to believe."
- 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.
- 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.
- His remarks came days before the deadline set by him for the conclusion of his so-called "revolutionary land reform programme" and the distribution of thousands of white-owned farms among allegedly "landless" Zimbabweans.
- In 1970s Brazil, the Roman Catholic Church ran a few Pastoral Commissions - organisations designed to offer support and spiritual guidance to marginalised groups such as landless peasants, prison inmates and migrant workers.
- (I knew of no one in my school or among my friends and relations whose family had experienced the slightest problem during the entire famine; it was not a famine that afflicted even the lower middle classes - only people much further down the economic ladder, such as landless rural labourers.)