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[syn: idle, jobless, out of work]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
out of work
    adj 1: not having a job; "idle carpenters"; "jobless
           transients"; "many people in the area were out of work"
           [syn: idle, jobless, out of work]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
21 Moby Thesaurus words for "out of work":
   at leisure, at liberty, at loose ends, available, disengaged,
   fallow, free, idle, jobless, leisure, leisured, lumpen, off,
   off duty, off work, otiose, out of employ, out of harness,
   unemployable, unemployed, unoccupied