"workless" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From work + -less.",
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          "text": "In the future, will machines end the need for employment and lead to a workless society?",
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          "text": "1935, Christopher Isherwood, Mr Norris Changes Trains (U.S. title: The Last of Mr Norris), Chapter Eight, in The Berlin Stories, New York: New Directions, 1963, p. 87,\nAnd morning after morning, all over the immense, damp, dreary town and the packing-case colonies of huts in the suburb allotments, young men were waking up to another workless empty day to be spent as they could best contrive […]"
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        "Devoid of work."
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          "ref": "1516, Sir Thomas More, Utopia:",
          "text": "The number of workless swelled to terrible dimensions",
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        {
          "ref": "2007, Helping people from workless households into work (published by the National Audit Office of the United Kingdom)",
          "text": "A workless household is defined as a household that includes at least one person of working-age (men aged 16-64 years and women aged 16-59 years) where no one in the household aged 16 or over is in employment."
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        "Having no work to do; unemployed."
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          "roman": "bezraboten",
          "sense": "unemployed",
          "word": "безработен"
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        "Not carried out in practice; not exemplified in fact."
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        "(obsolete) Not carried out in practice; not exemplified in fact."
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        "Devoid of work."
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        }
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      "roman": "bezraboten",
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