workless
- adjective
- /ˈwɜrkləs/
- UK
:
desempleado
- The local charity aims to support workless individuals by providing them with job training and resources.
Examples
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After losing his job, he found himself workless for several months while searching for new employment.
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They were workless sons of workers.
Fiction book (1990) -
It's why we now see so many thousands of people in households with work rather than in workless households.
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Soon this friend, who had agreed to contribute to the rent, was joined by another, workless and penniless.
Fiction book (1994) -
Most with mortgages are hoping that house price inflation continues, and that they don't find themselves workless.
Blog text (6) -
However, as a recent report into equality in Northern Ireland highlights, significant imbalances in the public and private sector workforces between Catholics and Protestants remain, and Catholics continue to have lower levels of employment, lower levels of economic activity, and a higher proportion of Catholics live in workless households.
Academic text (2006) -
Many families in the region are struggling as they face the challenges of being workless during the economic downturn.
Synonyms
274
1.7
Without work and looking for a job
124
1.8
Without a job and trying to find one
Not having a paid job
Antonyms
How Employed
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Workless is made of work and -less, where -less means 'without', just like in hopeless. So a workless person is 'without work' — they are 'unemployed'.