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workless
adj 3
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3ADJ.
terrible
VERB + WORKLESS
lead
WORKLESS + NOUN
society
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adj
1
Devoid of work.
In the future, will machines end the need for employment and lead to a workless society?
1935, Christopher Isherwood, Mr Norris Changes Trains (U.S. title: The Last of Mr Norris), Chapter Eight, in The Berlin Stories, New York: New Directions, 1963, p. 87, And morning after morning, all over the immense, damp, dreary town and the packing-case colonies of huts in the suburb allotments, young men were waking up to another workless empty day to be spent as they could best contrive […]
2
Having no work to do; unemployed.
The number of workless swelled to terrible dimensions
A workless household is defined as a household that includes at least one person of working-age (men aged 16-64 years and women aged 16-59 years) where no one in the household aged 16 or over is in employment.
3
Not carried out in practice; not exemplified in fact.
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In the future, will machines end the need for employment and lead to a workless society?
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1935, Christopher Isherwood, Mr Norris Changes Trains (U.S. title: The Last of Mr Norris), Chapter Eight, in The Berlin Stories, New York: New Directions, 1963, p. 87, And morning after morning, all o
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The number of workless swelled to terrible dimensions
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