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Insecure

Not secure not confident of safety or permanence distrustful suspicious apprehensive of danger or loss

strike

regarding economic benefits or conditions (as wages) NOTE: Workers engaged in an economic strike can legally be replaced permanently. No-strike clauses in collective bargaining agreements have been held to bar only economic strikes and not strikes protesting

chattel

chattels personal : an item of tangible movable personal property (as livestock or an automobile) that is not permanently connected with real estate chattel real pl: chattels real : an interest (as a leasehold or profit a

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dereliction

: an intentional abandonment b : a state of being abandoned 2 : a recession of water leaving permanently dry land 3 : an intentional or conscious neglect [ of duty]

divorce

adultery, cruelty, conviction of a crime, desertion, insanity, and nonsupport. absolute divorce : a divorce that completely and permanently dissolves the marital relationship and terminates marital rights (as property rights) and obligations (as fidelity) divorce a men·sa

establish

establish 1 : to institute (as a law) permanently by enactment or agreement [we the people of the United States…do ordain and this Constitution "U.S. Constitution preamble"]

immigrant visa

immigrant visa A visa for a person who plans to live indefinitely and permanently in the United States. Source: Department of State. March 2007.

larceny

unlawful taking and carrying away of personal property with the intent to deprive the rightful owner of it permanently ;also : any of several types of theft (as embezzlement or obtaining another's property by false pretenses) that

property

of land, buildings, crops, or other resources still attached to or within the land or improvements or fixtures permanently attached to the land or a structure on it ;also : an interest, benefit, right, or privilege in

reliction

act of leaving behind, from relinquere to leave behind] 1 : the gradual recession of water leaving land permanently uncovered 2 : land uncovered by reliction compare accretion

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