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at-will

[ at-wil ]

adjective

  1. being, relating to, or involved in a work agreement that the employer or employee may legally end at any time without notice or cause:

    Companies in this industry often use both contract and at-will employment options.

    Since they aren't at-will employees, they can only be discharged with cause.

    Even in at-will states, employers cannot fire you for discriminatory reasons.



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Word History and Origins

Origin of at-will1

First recorded in 1880–85
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Idioms and Phrases

Freely, as one pleases, as in The grounds are open to the public and one can wander about at will , or With this thermostat you can adjust the room temperature at will . [1300s]
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Example Sentences

These people depend upon the land for their subsistence, but they are tenants-at-will.

The provision which conferred a vote on the tenant-at-will, abrogated leases, and made the tiller of the soil a vassal.

The cultivators are still, for the most part, tenants-at-will, rack-rented and debt-ridden.

At all hazards they must be made tenants-at-will, and brought completely under his control.

But he was bent on crushing the independent yeomanry into the abject condition of tenants-at-will.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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