occupationless

adj

occupationless

adj

Etymology From occupation + -less.

1

Having no occupation; jobless; idle.

  • There are fewer occupationless Englishmen abroad, but there is a fair supply—half-pay officers, consumptives, and mysterious creatures, who have no good reason for being there.1913, F. M. Mayor, chapter X, in The Third Miss Symons:

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