Without position or employment. Obsolete.

Free from labour or toil; not engaging in work; not required to make any effort or exertion. Obsolete.

Of a person: having no reputable means of living; vagrant, vagabond, unemployed. Now historical.

Not employed in, not subjected or inured to, labour. rare.

Not appointed to a place or office; spec. (Scottish) of a church minister: not appointed to a benefice or living (cf. placed minister n. at placed…

Without labour; characterized by the absence of labour; requiring no labour.

unemployed; said of actors in allusion to the lowering of the play-house flag as a sign of closing.

That does not labour (in various senses of labour, v.); not requiring or characterized by hard work, effort, or exertion.

not employed, out of employment, unemployed.

Without hire or pay, unhired.

Not hired.

Not engaged in any work or occupation; idle; spec. temporarily out of work.

(un-, prefix1 affix 4.)

That does not toil. Also as present participle and n.

Having no work to do; out of work, unemployed, redundant; characterized by unemployment. Also as n. (with the and plural agreement): unemployed…

Characterized by absence of occupation; having no occupation; unoccupied, idle.

Having no job or post, unemployed; out of office. Obsolete.

Usually in form out-of-work. Of a person: unemployed, workless; (also) designating a payment, benefit, etc., for those who are unemployed.

That does not work; spec. not in paid employment. Also as n. (with the): non-working people collectively.

(un-, prefix1 affix 2. Cf. older Dutch ongehuurt (Dutch ongehuurd), Swedish ohyrd.)

Having no job; out of work, unemployed.

figurative (from 4–6.) Also phrases: †to slip (the) collar: to escape from restraint; to draw back from a task or undertaking: also †to shrink collar…

Of a person: not in employment; that does not have a job.

Not in actual or regular use at the time spoken of, but carried, held, or kept in reserve for future… colloquial. Of persons: off-duty, idle (cf. (…

Nautical. The shore, any part of the coastline off which a ship is at anchor; hence on the beach, ashore; retired (the beach = land, civilian life)…

in dry dock (figurative): inactive, unemployed; in quarantine; in hospital. colloquial.

(a) done or happening away from one's work; (b) unemployed.

colloquial. Out of work, unemployed.

Not receiving a wage, out of work. Also absol.