English

Adjective

workless ‎(not comparable)

1. Devoid of work.

   In the future, will machines end the need for employment and lead to a workless society?

2. Having no work to do; unemployed.
   • 2007, Helping people from workless households into work (published by the National Audit Office of the United Kingdom)

     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.

3. (obsolete) Not carried out in practice; not exemplified in fact.
   • Sir Thomas More

     workless faith

Quotations

• 2002, Vladimir M. Zatsiorsky, Kinetics of human motion, page 462

  Hence, workless forces are also powerless forces.