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[ˏdispә'zest]
adj.
无依无靠的, 被逐出的



    dispossessed
    [ adj ]
    physically or spiritually homeless or deprived of security
    <adj.all>
    made a living out of shepherding dispossed people from one country to another


    Dispossess \Dis`pos*sess"\ (?; see {Possess}), v. t. [imp. & p.
    p. {Dispossessed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Dispossessing}.] [Pref.
    dis- + possess: cf. F. d['e]poss['e]der.]
    To put out of possession; to deprive of the actual occupancy
    of, particularly of land or real estate; to disseize; to
    eject; -- usually followed by of before the thing taken away;
    as, to dispossess a king of his crown.

    Usurp the land, and dispossess the swain. --Goldsmith.

    dispossessed \dispossessed\ adj.
    physically or spiritually homeless or deprived of security.

    Syn: homeless, roofless.
    [WordNet 1.5]

    made a living out of shepherding dispossessed
    people from one country to another --James Stern

    1. The government has 'already identified vast tracts of land' which could be made available to people dispossessed during the apartheid era. But Mr de Klerk cautioned against expectations that South Africa could play a major role in Rwanda.
    2. Watson's rhetoric is purged of offensive racial references and cooled to a sympathetic refrain about the misery of dispossessed country folk forced to sell their youngsters' lifeblood to money-grubbing factory owners from the North.
    3. While attempts are being made to speed up processing claims from people dispossessed by the Nazis and, later, the communists, the report stresses that shortages of expert manpower are still hampering progress.
    4. The real winner was the Brazilian Democratic Movement, an amorphous party whose rapid advance to political dominance is tied to its anti-military record and appeal to the country's dispossessed.
    5. Existing state farms are likely to be converted into genuine co-operatives. The hope is that dispossessed farmers will find alternative employment in the expansion of underdeveloped rural services in food processing, transport and marketing.
    6. One young farmer, Randy Berends, has been all but dispossessed because he can't afford to rent his retiring father's 320 acres at $105 an acre.
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