nonworking
- adjective
- /nɒnˈwɜrkɪŋ/
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no trabajador
- If the unemployed and the nonworking dependents looked as much like private employees and the self-employed in the voting booth itself as they do in Table 9, then it is likely that nonworking dependents of the unemployed disproportionately favored the opposition.
- nonworking dependents
Examples
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If one looks at row percentages, the largest group of both nonrespondents and partisan respondents are the nonworking dependents and the self-employed.
Academic text (1992) -
A country's dependency ratio indicates the percentage of the nonworking population (both young and old) relative to that of the working population (Cavallo et al., 2016).
Academic text (2018) -
Whether it took the form of food stamps or cash assistance, state aid to the nonworking poor had become a lightning rod for criticism.
Academic text (2006) -
The nonworking population is composed of both the young (below age fifteen) and the old (above age sixty-five).
Academic text (2018) -
That same week, the New York Times Book Review carried a notice of two books on this same subject: Rethinking Social Policy: Race, Poverty, and the Underclass by Christopher Jencks, and The New Politics of Poverty: The Nonworking Poor in America by Lawrence M. Mead.
Academic text (1992) -
If the unemployed and the nonworking dependents looked as much like private employees and the self-employed in the voting booth itself as they do in Table 9, then it is likely that nonworking dependents of the unemployed disproportionately favored the opposition.
Academic text (1992) -
These were the policies that drove the "misery index" of inflation plus unemployment to undreamt-of heights, that led to the creation inside the United States of a permanent underclass of nonworking, fatherless families subsisting on welfare payments, and that undermined our ability to project force and command respect abroad.
Blog text (13) -
Many families rely on government support to help the nonworking individuals in their households.
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The number of nonworking adults has increased due to changes in the job market and economic conditions.
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She was part of a community program that provided resources for the nonworking population seeking employment.
Synonyms
274
1.7
Without work and looking for a job
124
1.8
Without a job and trying to find one
23
1.9
Not having a job
Not having a job right now
Without a job or any paid position
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Morphology
Etymology
The word nonworking comes from the prefix non- meaning 'not' and the word work meaning 'to do a job'. So nonworking means 'not employed' or 'not doing paid work'.