unwork

verb

Etymology

From un- + work.

  1. inherited from *werǵ- — “to make
  2. inherited from *wérǵom — “work
  3. inherited from *werką — “work
  4. inherited from *werk
  5. inherited from weorc
  6. inherited from work
  7. prefixed as unwork — “un + work

Definitions

  1. To undo or destroy (work previously done).

  2. The lack or absence of work

    The lack or absence of work; worklessness.

    • That comfortable philosophy which modern transcendentalism has but dimly shadowed forth — that 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: […]

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA