Definition of "workless" []

• Having no work: unemployed. (adjective)
• Not carried out in practice; not exemplified in fact. (adjective)

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• "If employers are queuing up to recruit, it will be easier to get the long-term workless into jobs."
• "As the Prime Minister convenes his "jobs summit" today, there will be a change of tone from the accustomed fret about the long-term workless and the unwilling."
• ""Cities need to stop the young and temporarily unemployed of today becoming the long-term workless of tomorrow.""