out of work

1. 1.

   not having a job

   “idle carpenters”

   “jobless transients”

   “many people in the area were out of work”

   Synonymsidlejobless

   Similarunemployed

Questions about out of work

What does out of work mean?

out of work means "not having a job".

What is another word for out of work?

Close synonyms include idle, jobless. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.