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PRONUNCIATION OF WORKLESS

workless  [ˈwɜːklɪs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF WORKLESS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Workless is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES WORKLESS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of workless in the English dictionary

The definition of workless in the dictionary is having no work; unemployed.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH WORKLESS


backless
ˈbæklɪs
barkless
ˈbɑːklɪs
beakless
ˈbiːklɪs
bookless
ˈbʊklɪs
brakeless
ˈbreɪklɪs
cheekless
ˈtʃiːklɪs
diskless
ˈdɪsklɪs
feckless
ˈfɛklɪs
hookless
ˈhʊklɪs
makeless
ˈmeɪklɪs
necklace
ˈnɛklɪs
peakless
ˈpiːklɪs
reckless
ˈrɛklɪs
smokeless
ˈsməʊklɪs
sparkless
ˈspɑːklɪs
tankless
ˈtæŋklɪs
thankless
ˈθæŋklɪs
trackless
ˈtræklɪs
wickless
ˈwɪklɪs
wreakless
ˈriːklɪs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE WORKLESS

working relationship
working substance
working title
working vacation
working week
working-class
workingmen
workings
workingwoman
workingwomen
worklessness
workload
workman
workmanlike
workmanly
workmanship
workmaster
workmate
workmen
workmen´s compensation

WORDS THAT END LIKE WORKLESS

bottomless
checkless
forkless
frockless
inkless
knockless
leakless
milkless
neckless
plackless
riskless
rockless
sockless
speckless
stackless
stalkless
stockless
suckless
tackless
trickless
trunkless

Synonyms and antonyms of workless in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «workless» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF WORKLESS

Find out the translation of workless to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of workless from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «workless» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

无业
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

sin trabajo
570 millions of speakers

English

workless
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

workless
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

متبطل
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

безработный
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

workless
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

workless
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

sans travail
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Tidak berfungsi
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Arbeitslosen
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

仕事のない
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

workless
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Ora ana gunane
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

workless
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

Workless
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

कामरहित
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

işsiz
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

senza lavoro
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

workless
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

безробітний
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

workless
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

άνεργων
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

werklose
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

arbetslös
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

workless
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of workless

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «WORKLESS»

The term «workless» is regularly used and occupies the 97.025 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «WORKLESS» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «workless» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «workless» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about workless

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «WORKLESS»

Discover the use of workless in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to workless and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Helping people from workless households into work
A workless household is defined as a household that includes at least one person of working-age (men aged 16-64 years and women aged 16-59 years) where no one in the household aged 16 or over is in employment.
Great Britain: National Audit Office, 2007
2
Helping people from workless households into work: ninth ...
This Committee of Public Accounts report (HCP 301, ISBN 9780215513465) examines the efforts to help people from workless households into work, and sets out a number of conclusions and recommendations, including: the Department of Work and ...
Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Committee of Public Accounts, House of Commons
3
Classical Dynamics
Quite possibly, however, the workless constraint forces will do work on individual particles of the system. For example, constraint forces are responsible for the transfer of energy from one particle of a rigid body to another as the particles move ...
Donald T. Greenwood, 2012
4
The State of Working Britain
While poverty and benefit dependence do not necessarily follow from worklessness, poverty is the norm amongst workless families. Around three- quarters of workless families are poor (defined as having below half the average equivalised ...
Paul Gregg, Jonathan Wadsworth, 1999
5
The Labour Market in Winter: The State of Working Britain
household types and this may help explain differential workless household rates. The bottom panel of Table 5.4 gives a 'conditional' polarisation estimate which estimates the excess workless household rate after allowing for differences in ...
Paul Gregg, Jonathan Wadsworth, 2011
6
Low-wage Employment in Europe: Perspectives for Improvement
Whilst the growth in the numbers of workless households in many countries is now undeniable, little is known about the relationship between household and individual based workless measures and why this relationship may have changed ...
Wiemer Salverda, 2005
7
A Life's Work: Achieving Full and Fulfilling Employment
Over a quarter were lone parent households, and once households with one adult past retirement age are counted, about two-thirds of workless households turn out to have just one adult of working age. It is the growth in such households that ...
Nick Burkitt, 2001
8
Child Poverty in the Uk: The Report on the 2010 Target
As an illustration of the progress made for such groups, Chart 5 below shows the changes in income poverty rates between 1998/99 and 2010/11 for workless families with a disabled adult and workless lone parent families with a youngest ...
Great Britain. Department for Work and Pensions, Great Britain: Department for Education, Great Britain. Department of Education, 2012
9
Employment 2006: Law and Practice, Human Resources
7865 The amount payable for a workless day is calculated by multiplying the number of normal working hours in that day by the guaranteed hourly rate ( s30ERAi996). 7866 The guaranteed hourly rate is 1 week's pay (112920) divided by the ...
FL Memo Ltd, 2006
10
Volunteering and Social Inclusion: Interrelations between ...
4.1.3.3 Workless households A special concern in Great Britain is the rise of workless households (Gregg and Wadsworth 2003; Nikolaou and Theodossiou 2003). The number of adults living in workless households and the number of ...
Susanne Strauß, 2008

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «WORKLESS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term workless is used in the context of the following news items.
1
'Workless' household rates fall but North East still highest
The UK rate is 17.2% or 3,518,000 workless households. The region with the lowest rate is the South East, with a rate of 12.7% - which is 349,000 homes where ... «BBC News, Nov 14»
2
Nottingham had highest proportion of workless households in UK …
The headline workless numbers include student households, and excluding them from the figures pushes Nottingham into third place total to 27.3%, while ... «The Guardian, Nov 14»
3
Workless households in UK fall to lowest level since 1996, ONS says
Just under 16% of UK households that include an adult of working age are “workless”, according to the Office for National Statistics. This latest figure, which ... «The Guardian, Oct 14»
4
UK workless household numbers falling, says ONS
The latest figures show that there were 137,000 fewer workless households in the final three months of 2013 compared with the same quarter a year earlier. «BBC News, Mar 14»
5
Did workless households double under Labour?
A workless household is where no-one aged 16 or over is employed, although there has to be at least one person of working age (so pensioners won't count in ... «Full Fact, Feb 14»
6
Glasgow has most workless households in UK, ONS figures show
Glasgow has the highest percentage of workless households of any area in the UK, new figures have shown. Information from the Office of National Statistics ... «BBC News, Sep 13»
7
Workless households at record low, says ONS
The highest percentage of workless households was in north-east England. Some 23% of households including a working age adult were workless in the region ... «BBC News, Aug 13»
8
UK 'workless households' rate among highest in EU as Britons …
There may be particular concern over the workless rate among UK single mothers. Only Ireland and tiny Malta among the other 26 EU states have a higher ... «Daily Mail, Jan 13»
9
'Culture of worklessness' theory challenged
The theory of a “culture of worklessness” where anti-employment and pro-welfare attitudes are passed on by jobless parents to their children is challenged in a ... «Financial Times, Dec 12»
10
Number of workless households falls again, says ONS
In total, five million people aged 16 to 64 live in workless households. The number of children living in workless households also fell to 1.8 million from 1.84 ... «BBC News, Aug 12»

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