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workless

  • a word derived from work.
    work
    noun
    exertion or effort directed to produce or accomplish something; labor; toil.

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WSJ: With each new development in AI, do you feel like we’re slipping closer toward a workless future?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 18, 2025

There’s Elon Musk, bragging that he allows himself maybe two or three workless days a year.

From Slate ● Aug. 4, 2023

Unless, that is, neither Green nor Purple nor any of the M&Ms are actually workless for long.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 25, 2023

Twenty percent of people live in workless households and the city has low skill, low wage economy in some areas.

From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2021

How perfectly true to life, subsequently, is the rapid dégringolade of this passion under the gnawing curse of the homeless, workless, purposeless existence which little by little disunites the lovers!

From Prophets of Dissent : Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy by Otto Heller