non-ablebodied

A form of non-able-bodied — Not able-bodied; disabled.

Meanings

adjectivenon-ablebodied (comparative more non-ablebodied, superlative most non-ablebodied)

comparative more non-ablebodied · superlative most non-ablebodied

  1. alternativeAlternative form of non-able-bodied.

    About 10 per cent. are non-ablebodied.

    1912, Henry Roe Cloud, “My People and the Christian Road”, in The Assembly Herald, volume 18, page 89
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    Of the non-ablebodied paupers—and it is for the non-ablebodied that the Scottish Poor Law lawfully provides—there remain only "the feebleminded," and the epileptic, and the persons of "unsound mind," who make up nearly one-fifth of the whole of Scottish pauperism.

    1913, Sidney Webb, Beatrice Webb, English Poor Law Policy, page 301

    for three or more non-ablebodied family membes, 110 percent, and for two non-ablebodied family members, 100 per cent of the old-age pension calculated as provided for in Article 13 of the Law in percentage of earnings of the breadwinner;

    1982, Legislative Acts of the USSR: 1980-1981, page 115
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