out of work

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English

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Prepositional phrase

out of work

  1. unemployed, or having nothing to do
  2. (dated) not working correctly; out of order
    • 1955, Franklin G. Moore, Manufacturing Management, page 812:
      This lost time was caused mainly because the operator had to find the dispatcher and notify him that the machine was out of work.

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