Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Having no owner: as, ownerless dogs.
Wiktionary
- adj. having no owner
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Without an owner.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. having no owner
Etymologies
- From owner + -less. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Otherwise we have what I call the ownerless corporation that floats out there in a vacuum unaccountable to anybody save the markets through failure leading to either a bailout or a takeover.”
“Hermann Goering gave the ERR the responsibility for the confiscation of "ownerless" Jewish art collections.”
“In a flash a domestic dog, which may or may not have been 'ownerless', ambushed the group.”
“The '' ownerless '' [72] epistle of the Church of Constantinople to Martyrios of Antioch which contains Canon VII of the Second Ecumenical Council exactly, '' which one parenthesis, '' [73] does not refer to the Church's generally prevailing procedure, but rather '' cites the Constantinopolitan custom. '”
“Men cast hungry eyes upon the ownerless claim, where they knew a thousand-thousand dollars waited but shovel and sluice-box.”
“As creations become digital they tend to become shared, ownerless goods.”
“The code hits back at Myners's accusation that the lack of action by investors led to the creation of "ownerless corporations" but is largely based on an existing set of guidelines used by the Institutional Shareholders Committee, which unites all the main investor bodies in the UK.”
“The banking crisis exposed the dangers of the "ownerless corporation", as it emerged that large investors in the financial sector had neglected their responsibilities as stewards and allowed the likes of Sir Fred Goodwin to do as they pleased.”
The Guardian: Pension funds must be more vocal if they are to be good stewards of our cash
“Comforted by a large, ownerless dog, she was eventually found and brought home by the Boston town crier.”
“They were caught in some timeless netherworld in-between, ownerless.”
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Words ending with *more or *less, more or less. Many of theses terms also appear on the list The -less Said, which see.
schemaless, jobless, endless, useless, unless, guileless, wireless, regardless, homeless, nevertheless, countless, doubtless and 434 more...
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