1. Not having a job
   "many people in the area were out of work"
   - idle, jobless

See also: unemployed

• hard-hitting
• hard-nosed
• hard-of-hearing
• hard-on
• hard-pressed
• hard-shell
• hard-shell clam
• hard-shell crab
• hard-shelled
• hard-skinned puffball
• hard-to-please
• hard-wearing
• hard-won
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• Hardenbergia
• Hardenbergia comnptoniana
• hardened