Wiktionary
a. unemployed; not employed in one's preferred field.
Usage examples of "out-of-work".
On Black Level the denizens con-sisted mostly of out-of-work crews, poor folks looking for cheap transit, criminals, petty thieves, swindlers and con men.
Rising unemployment led to domestic disturbances between out-of-work veterans and foreign guest workers.
The studio shells out somewhere between fifteen and a hundred million dollars to make a film, then asks the director to recut it based on the opinions of a Santa Barbara multiplex audience composed of hairdressers, meter maids, shoe-store clerks, and out-of-work pizza-delivery guys.
The largely out-of-work farmer had spent over $35,000, using Chase and First Deposit National Bank cards, on farm equipment, personal effects, and airline tickets.
Neal Bowers, a poet whose work has been repeatedly plagiarized by an out-of-work schoolteacher named David Jones, has written, "The intangible nature of language begins to haunt me, and I wonder how it's possible for anyone to own words.
But most of these crimes were the result of misery and poverty, of half-starved factory workers and out-of-work farm labourers.