nonworking
About 0.18 uses per million words.
Meaning
- adjective That does not work (operate or function).
- adjective Not employed; employed in unpaid labor, such as homemaking and childcare.
She works more than 12 hours a day at homemaking and childcare, so it is ironic that she is classified as a nonworking spouse.
Similar words
idle nonfunctioning inoperative nonoperational nonfunctional unperforming broken non-op unoperative malfunctional
Often followed by
mothers spouse hours women time poor wives days wife mother
Word family
non-working
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