disoccupation

Noun

disoccupation (uncountable)

1. Lack of occupation; The state of having nothing to occupy one's time; idleness.
   • Nay it is well if this diſoccupation of the intellect do not lead from ſloth to improper indulgences.1808, [Hannah More], chapter XXI, in Cœlebs in Search of a Wife. […], volume I, London: […] [Strahan and Preston] for T[homas] Cadell and W[illiam] Davies, […], →OCLC, page 318
   • Mortification, mingled perhaps with the pain of a tardy repentance, and rendered more distressing by the sudden change from an active life to a life of solitary disocucupation, soon began to tell upon his health; and after several months of rigorous imprisonment, obtaining permission to go to the...1867, George Washington Greene, The Life of Nathanael Greene, Major-general in the Army of the Revolution, page 121
2. Synonym of unemployment.
   • The following demands were made: An effective law protecting women, the election of women factory inspectors, old age government pensions going into effect at the age of 55, prevention of disoccupation by establishing the eight-hour day insurance against disoccupation, a minimum limit of wages...1903 October, “Socialism Abroad”, in The International Socialist Review, volume 4, number 4, page 247
   • There are also the obligatory insurances for disoccupation and old age, with progressive percentages, the maximum rate of which is, however, always applied, in view of the rates of pay; that is, 4.20 lire monthly for disoccupation, and 12 lire for old age.1924, Henry Coit MacLean, Italian Tax Reforms, page 3

   Synonyms:

   unemployment

3. The removal of the occupants of a place.
   • Regarding the matter of the disoccupation of the land, on which point the plaintiff appealed, the court is of the opinion that the defendant cannot be dispossessed until the plaintiff has paid for the improvements, as provided for in the above mentioned article.1909, Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court [and District Court] of the Canal Zone, page 44
   • If the plaintiff desired to insist upon the fulfillment of his contract with Ayesa y Compañía, he should have insisted upon its fulfillment at the time of the disoccupation, and should not have given his consent to the disoccupation of the property in question.1910, Philippines. Supreme Court, Reports of Cases Determined in the Supreme Court of the Philippine Islands, page 374
4. The process of ending a military occupation.
   • He was trying to have laborers organized to help out the other people in the country, newspaper men and other organizations that were working for the disoccupation of the Republic by the forces of the United States .1922, United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Haiti and Santo Domingo, Inquiry Into Occupation and Administration of Haiti and Santo Domingo
   • Inasmuch as the occupation of the Bolivian littoral by Chilean forces was the consequence of a decree issued by the Government of La Paz in annulment of the contract of the Compan~ia de Salitres y Ferrocarril de Anto fagasta, and since it is undignified for either Chile or Peru, and consequently...1924, Tacna-Arica Arbitration, page 118
5. The use of art to convert a space to one that reveals "emptiness", as opposed to one that is merely empty; the revelation of negative space by sculpture.
   • I posit the aethetic nature of the Statue as a purely spatial organism, to be exact, the active disoccupation of the Statue through the fusion of lightweight or unimposing formal elements.1957, Jorge Oteiza, Experimental Proposal 1956-1957
   • In cultural terms this was reflected in ETA's appreciation of Baque sculptor Jorge Oteiza's artistic theory of the disoccupation of space.1999, William A. Douglass, Basque Politics and Nationalism on the Eve of the Millennium, page 107