Disoccupation

Quick meaning: Disoccupation is a noun meaning Lack of occupation; The state of having nothing to occupy one's time; idleness.

Meaning

Lack of occupation; The state of having nothing to occupy one's time; idleness.

More Meanings

1. Synonym of unemployment.
2. The removal of the occupants of a place.
3. The process of ending a military occupation.
4. (art) The use of art to convert a space to one that reveals "emptiness", as opposed to one that is merely empty; the revelation of negative space by sculpture.

Example Sentences

Nay it is well if this diſoccupation of the intellect do not lead from ſloth to improper indulgences.

Toward the end of The House of Mirth, Lily Bart attempts to locate a warm space populated by sympathetic people, and instead finds herself “stranded in a great waste of disoccupation.”

At the Port station Frank was pleased and soothed by the tranquil air of the policeman, who sat in his shirt-sleeves outside the door, and seemed to announce, by his attitude of final disoccupation, that crimes and misdemeanors were no more.

There are also the obligatory insurances for disoccupation and old age, with progressive percentages, the maximum rate of which is, however, always applied, in view of the rates of pay; that is, 4.20 lire monthly for disoccupation, and 12 lire for old age.

Synonyms for disoccupation

Depending on context, synonyms include unemployment.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include inoccupation, disemployment, inoccupancy, joblessness, underoccupation, nonoccupation.

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