able-bodied

Definitions

1. Having a sound, strong body; physically competent; robust; fit for service.
2. Not disabled; having no physical disability.
3. Capable of performing all requisite duties as a seaman, specifically in the Royal Navy, a rating between leading and ordinary.

Equivalents

Examples

“A servant determinately idle, leaving his work⟳, or an able-bodied vagrant, roaming the country without means of honest self-support and without seeking employment, was to be brought before the two nearest magistrates.”

“Unfair discrimination between the able-bodied and the disabled is illegal in many places.”

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