Out-of-work Definition

Out-of-work Sentence Examples

• Millions were out of work.

• His father, a ship's carpenter, was frequently out of work owing to illness and the decline of his trade, and his mother had to go out to work soon after her son was horn.

• Cars replaced horses; did the stable boys remain out of work?

• Probably such labor as was thrown out of work by this tendency was easily absorbed by the growing needs of the towns.

• The chief seat of the woollen industry now is the Punjab, where a considerable number of weavers, thrown out of work by the decline of the shawl industry, have taken to carpet-making.