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🧑‍🦰 Not employed 🛑 Not functioning 📅 No work day
nonworking

nonworking

3.0
A day when people do not have to go to their job
  • adjective
  • /nɒnˈwɜrkɪŋ/
translation icon : no laborable
  • A waiter, obviously a duke during nonworking hours, poured tea.

Examples

  • During the nonworking hours of the office, the staff prepares for the upcoming projects.

  • The difference between them and the working and nonworking poor is often not net worth, which can very well be negative, but in access to resources and information.

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  • On nonworking days, she enjoys exploring new hobbies and spending time with her family.

  • He prefers to relax and read books during his nonworking time on weekends.

Synonyms

nonbusiness
vsnonworking
4.5

Not connected to business activities, often private or social

is about not involving work or falling on a day without work
workless
vsnonworking
5.6

Idle and not active, often for machines or factories

is used for times or days when people do not do work

Antonyms

workday
32 1.0

A day when most people go to work, not a weekend or holiday

How Work-Related

workwise
  • Informal
5.6
professional
∞ 3.4
personal
∞ 1.4
nonworking
3.0
recreational
84 3.9

Surface Forms

nonworking positive

Morphology

nonworking = working (transparent) = non + work + ing

Formed by adding 'non-' to 'working' (as in 'working day'), yielding 'not a working day' — a straightforward negation of scheduling status.

Etymology

The word nonworking comes from the prefix non- meaning 'not' and working meaning 'at work' or 'doing business'. So a nonworking day is a day 'not scheduled for work', like a holiday or weekend.