disoccupation

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Lack of occupation; The state of having nothing to occupy one's time; idleness.
  2. Synonym of unemployment.
  3. The removal of the occupants of a place.
  4. The process of ending a military occupation.
  5. The use of art to convert a space to one that reveals "emptiness", as opposed to one that is merely empty; the revelation of negative space by sculpture.

Word forms

disoccupation

Etymology

From dis- + occupation.

Synonyms

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