Workless
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Workless is an adjective meaning Devoid of work.
Meaning
Devoid of work.
More Meanings
- Having no work to do; unemployed.
- (obsolete) Not carried out in practice; not exemplified in fact.
Example Sentences
The number of workless swelled to terrible dimensions
In the future, will machines end the need for employment and lead to a workless society?
A workless household is defined as a household that includes at least one person of working-age (men aged 16-64 years and women aged 16-59 years) where no one in the household aged 16 or over is in employment.
1935, Christopher Isherwood, Mr Norris Changes Trains (U.S. title: The Last of Mr Norris), Chapter Eight, in The Berlin Stories, New York: New Directions, 1963, p. 87, And morning after morning, all over the immense, damp, dreary town and the packing-case colonies of huts in the suburb allotments, young men were waking up to another workless empty day to be spent as they could best contrive […]
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