stateless
adjective
state·less ˈstāt-ləs 
1
: having no state
2
: lacking the status of a national
a stateless refugee
statelessness noun
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the Web The need to own one coincided with mass upheaval across Europe: Countries were redrawn, regimes toppled, minorities persecuted, creating millions of stateless refugees. 
Amanda Foreman, WSJ, 12 Aug. 2022 Diehl said crypto skeptics are conscious of the need to work across borders, given that fans of digital currency consider their assets to be stateless. David Ingram, NBC News, 15 Aug. 2022 Three of them, as well as their 25-year-old assistant coach, were stateless, among an ethnic minority that lives in Thailand without the same rights as citizens. Ellen Wexler, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 July 2022 For one, in the last 20, 30, 50 years, the rise of multinational corporations has resulted in stateless entities that have no responsibility to anyone. Christopher Marquis, Forbes, 1 June 2022 Meanwhile, Kubernetes, the de facto standard of deployment for applications in the cloud, was once best suited only for stateless workloads. Amandeep Midha, Forbes, 19 May 2022 The fifth, will be for immigrants around the world, who are regarded with suspicion and detained at borders, leaving them homeless and stateless and stripped of dignity. Joshua M. Davidson, CNN, 28 Nov. 2021 The Biden administration has formally determined that Myanmar's military committed genocide and crimes against humanity against the Rohingya, a stateless Muslim minority encompassing about 1 million people. Alexandra Meeks, CNN, 21 Mar. 2022 To assist Afghan women, Motley suggested reviving Nansen Passports, first issued in 1922 to refugees and stateless people after World War I and the Russian Revolution. BostonGlobe.com, 21 Oct. 2021 See More
Amanda Foreman, WSJ, 12 Aug. 2022 Diehl said crypto skeptics are conscious of the need to work across borders, given that fans of digital currency consider their assets to be stateless. David Ingram, NBC News, 15 Aug. 2022 Three of them, as well as their 25-year-old assistant coach, were stateless, among an ethnic minority that lives in Thailand without the same rights as citizens. Ellen Wexler, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 July 2022 For one, in the last 20, 30, 50 years, the rise of multinational corporations has resulted in stateless entities that have no responsibility to anyone. Christopher Marquis, Forbes, 1 June 2022 Meanwhile, Kubernetes, the de facto standard of deployment for applications in the cloud, was once best suited only for stateless workloads. Amandeep Midha, Forbes, 19 May 2022 The fifth, will be for immigrants around the world, who are regarded with suspicion and detained at borders, leaving them homeless and stateless and stripped of dignity. Joshua M. Davidson, CNN, 28 Nov. 2021 The Biden administration has formally determined that Myanmar's military committed genocide and crimes against humanity against the Rohingya, a stateless Muslim minority encompassing about 1 million people. Alexandra Meeks, CNN, 21 Mar. 2022 To assist Afghan women, Motley suggested reviving Nansen Passports, first issued in 1922 to refugees and stateless people after World War I and the Russian Revolution. BostonGlobe.com, 21 Oct. 2021 See More Word History
First Known Use
1858, in the meaning defined at sense 1