Modifies a noun

• protocol: The bottom line is that HTTP is a stateless protocol.

• bean: For example, a stateless session bean may be used to perform temperature conversion.

• nation: The significance of Kurdistan The Kurds are the world's largest stateless nation.

• person: OR, a ' stateless person ' OR, a person traveling on a national travel document rather than a passport.

• society: But I do regard the likely shape of a stateless society as a partial basis for judging the legitimacy of actually existing institutions.

Used with adjective complement

• become: Being in China at the time, Stanislav missed the deadline and became stateless.

• bear: I hold Swedish and German nationality but was born stateless, as my father was a political refugee from Germany.

• render: Such an order may not be made if the person concerned is thereby rendered stateless.

• leave: Thousands of British overseas citizens left stateless after decolonisation in the 1960s are to be given the right to live in Britain.