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What does workless mean?

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Adjective
  1. Devoid of work.
  2. Having no work to do; unemployed.
  3. (obsolete) Not carried out in practice; not exemplified in fact.
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A workless household is defined as a household that includes at least one person of working-age where no one in the household aged 16 or over is in employment.
In New South Wales the bureau has been able to dispose of a large contingent of the workless by sending them to fossick for gold on old or deserted goldfields.
Workless fishermen here are now forced into the slums of the capital Port-au-Prince.
In the future, will machines end the need for employment and lead to a workless society?
A moral discourse, in which exclusion is seen as a matter of workless households and in which specific groups, such as young unemployed men and never-married single mothers, become the focal point.
There remains some concern about the number of workless households and some elements of quality of work.

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