unwork

Etymology 1

un- + work

verb

  1. (transitive) To undo or destroy (work previously done).

Etymology 2

From un- + work.

noun

  1. The lack or absence of work; worklessness.
    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

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