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n. - Having no employment.

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  • Every single day I see him on television as either traveling, vacationing, making commercials or just plain loafing.
  • He hates to see a big, fat word loafing around with nothing to do, so he throws one in occasionally for exercise, I guess.
  • He seemed to the New Salem people to be "loafing"; several of them have given that description of him.
  • The judges stopped the heat when it was halfway over, berated the competitors for "loafing," and restarted the race.
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