nonworker
- noun
- /ˈnɒnˌwɜrkər/
:
no trabajador
- Thirty-four percent of individuals had blue-collar jobs, and 38% of the subjects were nonworkers (e.g., unemployed, students).
- nonworkers (e.g., students)
- nonworkers and low
- nonworkers and intensity
Examples
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These nonworkers may be students with available time, semiretired people, minorities excluded from other jobs, and others.
Academic text (2001) -
They usually do not explain the failure of nonworkers to work steadily at all, which is in turn the cause of most poverty and dependency among working-aged people.
Academic text (1991) -
Antipoverty strategy and politics differ greatly today because poverty is rarely found among workers but is common among nonworkers.
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Most Americans refuse to believe that society's failure to expand opportunity causes the poverty of nonworkers who do not take and hold available jobs.
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For the most part, we spend less time debating whether the income of the working poor should be larger than we do discussing whether and how we can transform poor nonworkers into workers.
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Policymakers need to think about what inducements, along with higher wages, might be necessary to inspire current nonworkers to join the labor force in what is known as the secondary labor market.
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Moderate- and high-intensity workers were less satisfied with their amount of leisure time than nonworkers and low-intensity workers, and high-intensity workers spent less time with friends after school than nonworkers.
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In the new era, characterized by what I call dependency politics, the leading issue is how to handle the disorders of inner-city nonworkers: conservatives usually want to enforce civilities, which liberals resist doing.
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Many nonworkers prefer to spend their time volunteering rather than seeking paid employment.
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The community center offers resources for nonworkers to help them find job opportunities.
Synonyms
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1.7
People without a job who are looking for work
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2.0
A person without a paid job who is looking for work
People who do not have paid work
A person who has no income and depends on others
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Nonworker is made from the parts non- and worker, where non- means 'not', as in the words non-smoker and nonstop, and worker is someone who works. So a nonworker is a person who is 'not' working, often someone without paid employment.