Dispossessive
adj
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Adjective
- 1 That dispossesses.
"Work for hire is a way of making these workers submit to the kind of routine, dispossessive, political, and legal alienation to which most other working people have been long accustomed."
Example
More examples"Work for hire is a way of making these workers submit to the kind of routine, dispossessive, political, and legal alienation to which most other working people have been long accustomed."
Etymology
From dispossess + -ive.
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