Definition of "out-of-work" []

• Unemployed; not employed in one's preferred field. (adjective)

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• ""The first term is '99ers,' referring to out-of-work Americans who have exhausted their 99 weeks of unemployment benefits," he wrote in an e-mail."
• "What other out-of-work politician is elevated to the same level as the president during a national event, as Palin was with her speech on the Arizona tragedy?"
• ""A kind of psychological transformation has to take place; the out-of-work have to stop blaming themselves for their hard times and turn their anger on the bosses, the bureaucrats or the politicians who are in fact responsible.""