"rudderless" meaning in English

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        "Without a rudder."
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          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "without a rudder, unsteerable, without guidance",
          "word": "roekeloos"
        },
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          "_dis1": "87 13",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "without a rudder, unsteerable, without guidance",
          "word": "orientierungslos"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "87 13",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "without a rudder, unsteerable, without guidance",
          "word": "steuerlos"
        },
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          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "without a rudder, unsteerable, without guidance",
          "word": "führungslos"
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          "code": "no",
          "lang": "Norwegian",
          "sense": "without a rudder, unsteerable, without guidance",
          "word": "uten ror"
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        {
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          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "without a rudder, unsteerable, without guidance",
          "word": "desnortado"
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          "ref": "2005, Sean Dooley, The Big Twitch, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 23:",
          "text": "Their deaths were sobering not merely because of the searingly unbearable wrench of losing those two wonderful people, but because it left me exposed as rudderless.",
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        {
          "ref": "2023 September 6, Nigel Harris, “Comment: Leaderless and rudderless”, in RAIL, number 991, page 3:",
          "text": "As Christian Wolmar said in RAIL 990, our railway is \"leaderless and rudderless\", and drifting inexorably towards the rocks of total chaos.",
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        "Lacking guidance or direction."
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          "ref": "2023 September 6, Nigel Harris, “Comment: Leaderless and rudderless”, in RAIL, number 991, page 3:",
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      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "without a rudder, unsteerable, without guidance",
      "word": "roekeloos"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "without a rudder, unsteerable, without guidance",
      "word": "orientierungslos"
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    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "without a rudder, unsteerable, without guidance",
      "word": "steuerlos"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "without a rudder, unsteerable, without guidance",
      "word": "führungslos"
    },
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      "code": "no",
      "lang": "Norwegian",
      "sense": "without a rudder, unsteerable, without guidance",
      "word": "uten ror"
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      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "without a rudder, unsteerable, without guidance",
      "word": "desnortado"
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  "word": "rudderless"
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