unwork
English
Etymology 1
From un- + workCategory:English terms prefixed with un-#WORK.
Verb
unwork (third-person singular simple present unworks, present participle unworking, simple past and past participle unworked or (archaic) unwrought)Category:English lemmas#UNWORKCategory:English verbs#UNWORKCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#UNWORKCategory:Pages with entries#UNWORKCategory:Pages with 1 entry#UNWORK
- (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#UNWORK) To undo or destroy (work previously done).
Etymology 2
From un- + workCategory:English terms prefixed with un-#WORK.
Noun
unwork (uncountable)Category:English lemmas#UNWORKCategory:English nouns#UNWORKCategory:English uncountable nouns#UNWORKCategory:English uncountable nouns#UNWORKCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#UNWORKCategory:Pages with entries#UNWORKCategory:Pages with 1 entry#UNWORK
- The lack or absence of work; worklessness.
- 1892, John Greenleaf Wittier, The Prose of John Greenleaf Wittier:
- That comfortable philosophy which modern transcendentalism has but dimly shadowed forth — that poetic agrarianism, which gives all to each and each to all— is the real life of this city of unwork.Category:English terms with quotations#UNWORK
- 1963 Jan, Life:
- Collective bargaining has a crisis of "unwork" — that is, work which Justice Douglas once called "unwanted . . . totally useless." So much "unwork" clutters the table that collective bargaining is no longer able to do what it should: […]Category:English terms with quotations#UNWORK