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out of work
adjective as in not employed
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Out-of-work Americans received some startling news via their New York Times iPhone app last Sunday.
There are plenty of out-of-work teachers in the camp, so the school provides them a small salary to work.
Abu-Jamal, a former Black Panther who was then an out-of-work journalist driving a cab, watched from across the street.
Sondra Wiener, forced to make pocket money like an out-of-work laborer, endures the pity of her neighbors.
Though neatly turned out, he looked a little like an out-of-work bookkeeper.
Once a week they receive their out-of-work pay; every alternate day they have to visit the Exchange to see what jobs are vacant.
Tacoma offered no privileges for the destitute out-of-work man.
It would at least keep two hundred thousand out-of-work miners from actual starvation for a year.
In London alone, between four and five thousand out-of-work gas employs were drawing Government pay.
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On this page you'll find 13 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to out of work, such as: between jobs, collecting unemployment, idle, jobless, laid-off, and on the dole.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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