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third-person singular simple present unworks, present participle unworking, simple past and past participle unworked or (archaic) unwrought
(transitive) To undo or destroy (work previously done). examples
uncountable
The lack or absence of work; worklessness. quotations examples
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
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