workless

Adjective

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,...
2. Having no work to do; unemployed.
   • The number of workless swelled to terrible dimensions - 1516, Sir Thomas More, Utopia:
   • 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. - 2007,...
3. Not carried out in practice; not exemplified in fact.