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Vinony

stateless

adjective

  1. without a political state(s), belonging to or subject to no political regime
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Wiktionary

adj

Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- Proto-Italic *status Latin statuslbor. Old French estatbor. Middle English stat English state Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁- Proto-Indo-European *lewHs-der. Proto-Germanic *leusaną Proto-Germanic *lausaz Proto-Germanic *-lausaz Proto-West Germanic *-laus Old English -lēas Middle English -les English -less English stateless From state + -less.

  1. Of a system or protocol, such that it does not keep a persistent state between transactions.

    “A stateless server treats each request independently.”

  2. Without state or pomp.
  3. Without a state or nationality; not subject to any state.

    “UN Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons”

    “The ability to shift profits to low-tax countries by locating intellectual property in them[…]is often assumed to be the preserve of high-tech companies.[…]current tax rules make it easy for all sorts of firms to generate[…]“stateless income”: profit subject to tax in a jurisdiction that is neither the location of the factors of production that generate the income nor where the parent firm is domiciled.”

  4. Neither believing in nor supporting the idea of nations.