stateless

Thân thiện

A stateless person receives humanitarian aid at a refugee camp.

Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Without nationality or citizenship: Describes a person who is not recognized as a citizen by any country under its laws. This status often results in a lack of legal protection and access to basic rights.

Usage Examples

• Adjective:
  • The conflict created thousands of stateless refugees.
  • A stateless individual may face difficulties obtaining a passport or accessing healthcare.

Advanced Usage

• "Stateless" in computing: In technology, particularly networking, "stateless" describes a protocol or system where each request is independent and no information about previous interactions is retained (e.g., HTTP is a stateless protocol). This meaning is distinct from the primary legal/political definition.
  • The server uses a stateless architecture for better scalability.

Variants and Related Words

• Statelessness (noun): The condition of being stateless.
  • The organization works to end the problem of statelessness.

Synonyms

• Without a country
• Nationality-less
• Disenfranchised (in the specific context of lacking citizenship rights)

Antonyms

• Citizen
• National
• Naturalized

Related Phrases and Concepts

• Stateless person: The formal term for an individual who is stateless.
  • The 1954 Convention relates to the status of stateless persons.
• De facto stateless: A person not recognized as a citizen by any state, even if they have a nominal nationality.
• De jure stateless: A person whom no state recognizes as its national under its law.

Học thuật

Adjective

1. without nationality or citizenship
   • stateless persons

Từ đồng nghĩa

• homeless