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out of work
Unemployed; also, having no work to do. For example, He lost his job a year ago and has been out of work ever since, or They don't give her enough assignments—she's always out of work. Shakespeare used this expression in Henry V (1:2): “All out of work and cold for action.”
Example Sentences
He’s back home now, but is out of work and in debt.
She added: "Why would I give my voice away that was going to do me out of work forever? That's nuts."
She said the number of people receiving Personal Independence Payments - paid to those in and out of work - was set to more than double to 4.3 million.
You can add biomedical researchers and climate scientists to the manifest too, because they’re going to be out of work anyway.
Beyoso wrote in the GoFundMe description that Sheridan experienced an “extremely severe case of pancreatitis,” had been unable to work since April 12 and would be out of work for an undetermined amount of time.
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