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Word: idle
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Meaning:
Adjective:
- Averse to work, labor or employment; lazy; slothful.
- Not engaged in any occupation or employment; unemployed; inactive; doing nothing.
- Not turned to occupied.
- obsolete Empty, vacant.
- Of no importance; useless; worthless; vain; trifling; thoughtless; silly.
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Verb:
- intransitive Of an engine: to run at a slow speed, or out of gear; to tick-over.
- intransitive To lose or spend time doing nothing, or without being employed in business.
- transitive To spend in idleness; to waste; to consume.
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