idle
out of work
jobless
idleness
idling
loafing
nonworking
nonemploying
joblessly
workless
inactive
off the clock
unemployment
nonemployed
unearning
nonearning
employless
terminated
unemployed
unretired
discharged
pink-slipped
workerless
dismissed
fired
laid-off
out-of-school
nonretiring
unemployable
unworking
unprofessional
worklessness
occupationless
nonlaborious
inoccupation
out sick
unfilled
bosslessness
unsalaried
incompetent
unskilled
low-powered
unhired
uncompensated
nonconsulting
disoccupation
nontenured
retired
employeeless
managerless
hooky
professionless
laborless
impecunious
on the wallaby track
out of a job
moneylessness
nonofficeholding
unbusied
underburdened
employmentally challenged
between jobs
loafer
shirtsleeves
bum
idler
layabout
bossless
do-nothing
private
nonoccupational
noncommercial
lighthanded
unemployed person
preretired
light-handed
unemployee
unclerklike
tradefallen
unaiding
unclerical
unclerkly
unpensioned
joblessness
livingless
nonemployment
moneyless
bull week
single-handedness
chairwarmer
tapped out
unappointed
nonappointed
unlabouring

English words for 'not having a job'

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