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out of work

out of work prepositional phrase: unemployed, or having nothing to do.

Prepositional phrase

  1. unemployed, or having nothing to do
  2. (dated) not working correctly; out of order
    • This lost time was caused mainly because the operator had to find the dispatcher and notify him that the machine was out of work.1955, Franklin G. Moore, Manufacturing Management, page 812

out of work meaning in Malayalam and Kannada

out of work in Malayalam

out of a job, unemployed, jobless
ജോലിയില്ലാത്ത, ജോലിയില്ലാതെ നടക്കുന്ന, തൊഴിലില്ലാത്ത, നിർവ്യാപാര, അനുദ്യോഗ, തൊഴിൽരഹിതനായ

out of work in Kannada

ನಿರುದ್ಯೋಗಿಯಾದ, ಕೆಲಸವಿಲ್ಲದ

Forms of out of work

alternative formout-of-work

Questions about out of work

What does out of work mean?
Out of work means unemployed, or having nothing to do.
What is out of work in Malayalam?
Out of work in Malayalam is ജോലിയില്ലാത്ത, ജോലിയില്ലാതെ നടക്കുന്ന, തൊഴിലില്ലാത്ത. See Out of work meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is out of work?
Out of work is a prepositional phrase.

Words near out of work in the dictionary

  1. out of view
  2. out of wack
  3. out of wedlock
  4. out of whack
  5. out of wind
  6. out of work
  7. out on
  8. out on a limb
  9. out on one's ear
  10. out on one's feet
  11. out on the tiles

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: out of work (page history and authors); out of work (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); out of work (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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