unwork

present singular third person unworks · participle present unworking · participle past unworked · past unworked · archaic participle past unwrought · archaic past unwrought

1. transitiveTo undo or destroy (work previously done).

1. uncountableThe lack or absence of work; worklessness.

   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.

   1892, John Greenleaf Wittier, The Prose of John Greenleaf Wittier

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   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: […]

   1963 Jan, Life