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Workless   Listen
adjective
Workless  adj.  
1.
Without work; not laboring; as, many people were still workless.
2.
Not carried out in practice; not exemplified in fact; as, workless faith. (Obs.)






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Workless" Quotes from Famous Books



... for the dockers." To-morrow morning, in London alone 20,000 to 25,000 adult men," wrote Sidney Webb, "will fight like savages for permission to labour in the docks for 4d. an hour, and one-third of them will fight in vain, and be turned workless away." We worked for children's dinners. "If we insist on these children being educated, is it not necessary that they shall be fed? If not, we waste on them knowledge they cannot assimilate, and torture many of them to death. Poor ...
— Annie Besant - An Autobiography • Annie Besant

... Chief Secretaries, containing 176 pages, and Orders and Regulation's for Social Officers, the latter a complete explanation of his thoughts and wishes for the conduct of every form of effort for the elevation of the homeless and workless and fallen; and Orders and Regulations for Local Officers, containing precise details as to the duties of all the various non-commissioned or lay Officers, whether engaged in work for old or young. Smaller handbooks of Orders and Regulations for Bands and ...
— The Authoritative Life of General William Booth • George Scott Railton



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