Wiktionary
a. 1 Without property—things owned. 2 Having no properties—attributes or abstract qualities associated with an object.
WordNet
adj. the lowest class of citizens of ancient Rome who had no property [syn: proletarian] [ant: patrician, plebeian]
of those who work for wages especially manual or industrial laborers; "party of the propertyless proletariat"- G.B.Shaw [syn: wage-earning, working-class, blue-collar]
Usage examples of "propertyless".
He wanted a parliament elected by vote, including the vote of women and the propertyless, a distribution of land, and perfect toleration of all worship.
Head Count, which was the propertyless lowest class of Roman citizens- and resolved to find his army among the Head Count.
The biggest problem was to keep the propertyless people, who were unemployed and hungry in the crisis following the French war, under control.
They certainly did not want an equal balance between slaves and masters, propertyless and property holders, Indians and white.
The rest of the wealth is distributed in such a way as to turn those in the 99 percent against one another: small property owners against the propertyless, black against white, native-born against foreign-born, intellectuals and professionals against the uneducated and unskilled.
Things military had been in a state of flux since Gaius Marius admitted the propertyless Head Count to the legions, and mutiny was just a new symptom of that state of flux.
She might then choose to deliver the boy to the emperor, who might, in his wisdom, have a better idea of what to do with a young and propertyless king.
In most other countries the propertyless were disqualified or plural votes were given to taxpayers, university graduates and fathers of families.