dispossessive
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From dispossess + -ive.
Pronunciation
[edit]- Rhymes: -ɛsɪv
Adjective
[edit]dispossessive (comparative more dispossessive, superlative most dispossessive)
- That dispossesses.
- 2012, Matt Stahl, Unfree Masters: Popular Music and the Politics of Work[1]:
- Work for hire is a way of making these workers submit to the kind of routine, dispossessive, political, and legal alienation to which most other working people have been long accustomed.