landless

Modifies a noun

• laborer: With the decrease in labor services, there would be more work for landless laborers in the manor.
• peasant: Land reforms have also not helped the landless peasants.
• laborer: Also present are between 50 and 100 Batwa families who live as landless laborers following their eviction from the forest in 1964.
• farmer: Land reform is urgently required and landless farmers are fighting for their rights.
• poor: I visited one of the projects we were funding that was helping the landless poor get access to land.
• worker: In Brazil there are five million landless workers, the poorest layer of rural society.

Modifying Another Word

• especially: But the poorest of the poor, especially landless women, remain untouched and ignored.
• virtually: The land-hungry Campbells of Argyll annoyed and oppressed them; reducing them virtually landless and to a state of lawlessness.
• now: Many of these now landless people moved to the Amazon where they cleared pristine forests.

Used with adjective complement

• render: They have been rendered landless, homeless and denied even their most basic human rights and dignity.
• make: The poor who have been made landless through debts incurred in buying pesticides and fertilizers?