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Webster 1913 Edition
Unwork
Un-work′
(ŭn-wûk′)
, Verb.
T.
[1st pref.
un-
+ work
.] To undo or destroy, as work previously done.
Definition 2024
unwork
unwork
English
Verb
unwork (third-person singular simple present unworks, present participle unworking, simple past and past participle unworked)
Etymology 2
Noun
unwork (plural unworks)
- The lack or absence of work; worklessness.
- 1892, John Greenleaf Wittier, The Prose of John Greenleaf Wittier:
- That comfortable philosophy which modern transcendentalism has but dimlyshadowed forth — that poetic agrarianism, which gives all to each and each to all— is the real life of this city of unwork.
- 1963, Life - Jan 1963:
- 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: [...]
- 1892, John Greenleaf Wittier, The Prose of John Greenleaf Wittier: