Definition of Stateless

1. Adjective. Without nationality or citizenship. "Stateless persons"

Exact synonyms: Homeless
Similar to: Unsettled

Definition of Stateless

1. a. Without state or pomp.

Definition of Stateless

1. Adjective. (legal) Without a state or nationality, not subject to any state. ¹

2. Adjective. (computer science) Of a system or protocol, such that it does not keep a persistent state between transactions. ¹

3. Adjective. (dated) Without state or pomp. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Stateless

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Stateless

statecraft
statecrafts
stated
stated-income
stated income
statedly
stateful
statefully
statefulness
statehood
statehooder
statehooders
statehoods
statehouse
statehouses
stateless
stateless person
statelessly
statelessness
statelessnesses
statelet
statelets
statelier
stateliest
statelike
statelily
stateliness
statelinesses
stately
stately home

Literary usage of Stateless

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Bedoons of Kuwait: "citizens Without Citizenship" by Human Rights Watch/Middle East, Aziz Abu-Hamad (1995)
"The result may be that the child may be rendered stateless unless he or she ... "7 Other Rights of the Stateless In addition to the right of stateless ..."

2. Programming In Lua by Roberto Ierusalimschy (2003)
"7.3 Stateless Iterators As the name implies, a stateless iterator is an iterator ... Therefore, we may use the same stateless iterator in multiple loops, ..."

3. Model Tax Convention on Income and on Capital by OECD Staff, Oecd, OECD Committee on Fiscal Affairs (2000)
"The purpose of paragraph 2 is to limit the scope of the clause concerning equality of treatment with nationals of a Contracting State solely to stateless ..."

4. Model Tax Convention on Income and on Capitalby Oecd, Organisation for Economic Co-operation, (Paris) Organisation for Economic Co-ope, OECD Staff, Development. by Oecd, Organisation for Economic Co-operation, (Paris) Organisation for Economic Co-ope, OECD Staff, Development. (2000)
"By thus excluding stateless persons who are residents of neither Contracting State, such a clause prevents their being privileged in one State as compared ..."

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