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Meaning of unwork | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1

Definitions

The lack or absence of work; worklessness.

uncountable

Examples

That comfortable philosophy which modern transcendentalism has but dimly shadowed forththat poetic agrarianism, which gives all to each and each to all— is the real life of this city of unwork.”
Collective bargaining has a crisis of "unwork" — that is, work which Justice Douglas once called "unwanted . . . totally useless." So much "unwork" clutters the table that collective bargaining is no longer able to do what it should: […]”

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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