alienable

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Our unalienable rights can't be taken away -- else they would be "alienable."

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  1. adjective Transferrable to the ownership of another.

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  • No matter how big and capital-intensive their investments, foreign investors are only permitted to lease alienable lands for 25 years, with an option to renew for another 25 years. —  Asia Times Online
  • Things are in themselves external to man, and therefore alienable. —  Roughtheory.org
  • Thus at the moment when the NAFTA and WTO agreements were being finalized in the mid-1990s, with their neoliberal prejudices in favor of private alienable property in land, the "there is no alternative" World Bank was carefully exploring "Plan B," i.e., a political position to fall back on when the antagonistic response to the privatization of land becomes too powerful and aggressive. —  P2P Foundation
  • There are no autonomous layers, and in this sense, decision rights are not protected but revocable and alienable. —  Recently Uploaded Slideshows
  • If you're British you need to, it could quite easily be enacted effectively closing Parliament and dismissing the alienable Human Rights Act. - actual and current police state / authoritarian government? —  Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz
 

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/ˈeɪlyɛnəbl/
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