without work
Lacking gainful employment
Without work describes being unemployed or lacking a job: He's been without work for six months.
It can also mean lacking effort or labor: Nothing worthwhile comes without work.
The phrase emphasizes absence—either the state of joblessness or the impossibility of achieving something effortlessly.
- unemployedWithout a job
- joblessLacking paid employment
- between jobsEuphemism for unemployed
- idleWithout activity or purpose
- laid offDismissed from employment
pink slip · redundant · leisure · free time · time off · lazy · resting · broke · welfare · benefits · vacation · retirement · sabbatical · loafing · slacking · downtime · furlough · fired
employment status
without workemployed
Having paid work
working · earning · salaried · hired · earning a living
without, work, works, worked, working, worker, workers, workable, unworkable