Dispossessive

adj

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 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

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"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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