Disoccupation
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Lack of occupation; The state of having nothing to occupy one's time; idleness. uncountable
"Nay it is well if this diſoccupation of the intellect do not lead from ſloth to improper indulgences."
- 2 Synonym of unemployment. uncountable
"The following demands were made: An effective law protecting women, the election of women factory inspectors, old age government pensions going into effect at the age of 55, prevention of disoccupation by establishing the eight-hour day insurance against disoccupation, a minimum limit of wages, state and municipal public works for the unemployed, agricultural colonies, etc."
- 3 The removal of the occupants of a place. uncountable
"Regarding the matter of the disoccupation of the land, on which point the plaintiff appealed, the court is of the opinion that the defendant cannot be dispossessed until the plaintiff has paid for the improvements, as provided for in the above mentioned article."
- 4 The process of ending a military occupation. uncountable
"He was trying to have laborers organized to help out the other people in the country, newspaper men and other organizations that were working for the disoccupation of the Republic by the forces of the United States ."
- 5 The use of art to convert a space to one that reveals "emptiness", as opposed to one that is merely empty; the revelation of negative space by sculpture. uncountable
"I posit the aethetic nature of the Statue as a purely spatial organism, to be exact, the active disoccupation of the Statue through the fusion of lightweight or unimposing formal elements."
Synonyms
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More examples"Morocco has a high percentage of disoccupation."
Etymology
From dis- + occupation.
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