werkeloos

Etymology
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Adjective

 * 1) having nothing to do, doing nothing; idle, workless
 * werkeloos toezien — to watch idly (doing nothing to help)
 * 1) workless, jobless, unemployed

Usage notes
In recent years, some writers have started to make a distinction between the alternative forms werkloos and werkeloos, reserving the former for the sense “unemployed” and the latter for the sense “idle”. This distinction has no historical basis.