non-workn.adj.

1855 J. J. Jarves Parisian Sights & French Princ. i. 14 Serfage in its lowest and most laborious forms, separated by the impassable gulfs of work and non-work, from [printed form] nobility.

1893 R. L. Stevenson Let. 19 July (1902) II. xii. 359 Lungs pretty right, stomach nowhere, spirits a good deal overshadowed... (I confess with sorrow that I am not yet quite sure about the intellects; but I hope it is only one of my usual periods of non-work.)

1955 Amer. Sociol. Rev. 20 194 We have separated farming into a third category because of its unique features such as the fusion of work and non-work, the high degree of self-employment, the rural setting, and the like.

1982 R. Grudin Time & Art of Living xi. 174 The metronomic alternation between work and nonwork implants in us misleading distinctions between these two modalities.

1996 M. Aftel Story of your Life iv. 76 Mastery can apply to work and nonwork, vocation and avocation.

1922 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 27 433 The tremendous asset of non-work hours at the people's command.

1938 Jrnl. Negro Hist. 23 67 Unrestrained pleasure in nonwork activities is a sign of weakness.

1964 K. G. Lockyer Introd. Crit. Path Anal. ii. 9 This ‘non-work’ aspect of some activities is sometimes found difficult to accept until the test of needfulness to the project is applied.

1991 R. J. Johnston Question of Place 81 Cultures will then develop rules for organizing their ‘non-work time’ and for using their ‘spare energy’.