Definitions
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- noun A person who does not work as s/he should.
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- noun One who does not
work .
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- noun a person who does nothing
Etymologies
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Examples
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Emerging markets, such as India and Brazil, will continue to have two to three workers for every nonworker.
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I just start at the beginning and tell them about being the only nonworker in a family of workers.
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I just start at the beginning and tell them about being the only nonworker in a family of workers.
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This demographic logic also applies to companies, since any employer that offers pensions and benefits to its employees has to deal with the consequences of its nonworker-to-worker ratio, just as a country does.
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Well, we tax only property; if a nonworker acquires taxable property, he has to go to work to earn the taxes.
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There isn't a word of truth in it, of course, but it'll do to arrest and hold them for a few days, and by that time some of my undercovers will be in control of every nonworker vote on the planet.
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On a number of occasions, their smaller rivals, leaders of less important gangs, have been arrested, often on trumped-up charges, and held incommunicado until either Moogie or Zikko could move into their territories and annex their nonworker followers.
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Well, I flunked out so I’m just an antisocial nonworker.
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