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out of true |
out of use |
out of view |
out of wedlock |
out of whack |
out of work
| out on a limb
| out or keeping
| out to
| out-and-out
| out-and-outer
out of work
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective out of work has 1 sense
- out of work(s = adj.all) idle, jobless - not having a job; "idle carpenters"; "jobless transients"; "many people in the area were out of work"
THESAURUS
out of work
at leisure, at liberty, at loose ends, available, disengaged, fallow, free, idle, jobless, leisure, leisured, lumpen, off, off duty, off work, otiose, out of employ, out of harness, unemployable, unemployed, unoccupiedROGET THESAURUS
out of work
Inaction
N inaction, passiveness, abstinence from action, noninterference, nonintervention, Fabian policy, conservative policy, neglect, inactivity, rest, quiescence, want of occupation, inoccupation, idle hours, time hanging on one's hands, dolce far niente, sinecure, featherbed, featherbedding, cushy job, no-show job, soft snap, soft thing, not doing, not done, undone, passive, unoccupied, unemployed, out of employ, out of work, fallow, desaeuvre, re infecta, at a stand, les bras croisis, with folded arms, with the hands in the pockets, with the hands behind one's back, pour passer le temps, Int, so let it be!, stop!, hands off!, cunctando restituit rem, If it ain't broke don't fix it, stare decisis, let the decision stand.
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