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Type Words
Type of homelessness
Derivation vagrant

Examples of vagrancy

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Anti-vagrancy and passport requirement laws severely limited the men's movements.
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In 1894, he spent 30 days for vagrancy in the Erie County Penitentiary at Buffalo.
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A Hall of Mirrors'three main characters slide along the rim of vagrancy in New Orleans.
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Hall was eventually arrested three times, the first being on May 14th, 1951 for vagrancy.
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There, he said, he met a woman with an outstanding warrant for vagrancy.
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They also blame people who sell to the facilities for theft and vagrancy.
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Vagrancy, or loitering, laws have drawn the court's disapproval before.
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Privacy, however, is only one reason that civil libertarians attack vagrancy provisions.
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The resulting laws against vagrancy were the origins of state-funded relief for the poor.
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More examples
  • The state of wandering from place to place; having no permanent home or means of livelihood
  • Vagrancy is a phenomenon in biology whereby individual animals appear well outside their normal range; individual animals which exhibit vagrancy are known as vagrants. The term accidental is sometimes also used. ...
  • Vagrancy the 1942 champion 3-year-old filly and handicap mare was honored with a race in her name which is run at Belmont Park. Most acknowledge her grit and determination in that she had 12 starts against males, although she never finished better than second. ...
  • A vagrant is a person in poverty, who wanders from place to place without a home or regular employment or income. Many towns in the Developed World have shelters for vagrants. Common terminology is a tramp or a 'gentleman of the road'.
  • (The Vagrants) The Vagrants were a Long Island-based rock and blue-eyed soul group from the 1960s. The group was composed of Peter Sabatino on vocals, harmonica, and tambourine, Leslie West on vocals and guitar, Larry West on vocals and bass guitar, on organ, and Roger Mansour on drums.
  • The state of being a vagrant
  • The violation of a court order, regulation, ordinance, or law requiring the withdrawal of persons from the streets or other specified areas; prohibiting persons from remaining in an area or place in an idle or aimless manner; or prohibiting persons from going from place to place without visible ...
  • Vagabondage, begging, loitering, etc.
  • The condition of an individual who is idle, has no visible means of support, and travels from place to place without working.