badgeless
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6.3
A person who is not showing an ID card or pass
- adjective
- /ˈbædʒləs/
:
sin insignia
- At the conference, she felt out of place as a badgeless attendee among so many officials.
Examples
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Without a badge, he was considered badgeless and not allowed to enter the building.
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It was the truth, but it also concealed his badgeless status.
Fiction book (2001) -
A badgeless MLA being inconceivable (since much of the representational foundation would then collapse, and even drifting would become impossible since there would be no structure from which such an activity could veer), I had to get a badge in order to fit in.
Academic text (1990) -
The security officer stopped him for being badgeless during the event.
Antonyms
Surface Forms
badgeless positive
Morphology
Etymology
Badgeless is made from badge and -less, where -less means 'without'. So a Badgeless person is literally 'without a badge', which is why they are often stopped for ID or given a temporary pass.