Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Without work; not working; unemployed: as, a lazy, workless fellow.
- Without works; not carried out or exemplified in works.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Without work; not laboring.
- adjective obsolete Not carried out in practice; not exemplified in fact.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Having no
work :unemployed . - adjective obsolete Not carried out in practice; not exemplified in fact.
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Examples
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If employers are queuing up to recruit, it will be easier to get the long-term workless into jobs.
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If employers are queuing up to recruit, it will be easier to get the long-term workless into jobs.
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"Cities need to stop the young and temporarily unemployed of today becoming the long-term workless of tomorrow."
New Statesman 2009
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As the Prime Minister convenes his "jobs summit" today, there will be a change of tone from the accustomed fret about the long-term workless and the unwilling.
Eye on Britain 2009
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A total of 1.84 million children lived in these so-called workless households.
WalesOnline - Home 2011
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A total of 1.84 million children lived in these so-called workless households.
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A total of 1.84 million children lived in these so-called workless households.
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A total of 1.84 million children lived in these so-called workless households.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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BIRMINGHAM, England — U.K. Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne announced fresh action Monday to cut the country's welfare bill, unveiling plans to cap the benefits any workless household can receive while removing child benefits for those with higher incomes.
U.K. Treasury Chief Targets Welfare Bill Ainsley Thomson 2010
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The cap was designed by the government as a way of saving cash, incentivising work and introducing what it believes is an element of fairness into the benefits system - it argues the cap will mean no workless family will receive more in benefits than average working household earnings - an estimated £26,000.
Welfare reform bill: household benefit cap Lords debate - Monday 23 January 2012
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