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n. - One who does not labor or is not an employee.

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  • This demographic logic also applies to companies, since any employer that offers pensions and benefits to its employees has to deal with the consequences of its...
  • Well, we tax only property; if a nonworker acquires taxable property, he has to go to work to earn the taxes.
  • There isn't a word of truth in it, of course, but it'll do to arrest and hold them for a few days, and by that time some of my undercovers will be in control of every...
  • On a number of occasions, their smaller rivals, leaders of less important gangs, have been arrested, often on trumped-up charges, and held incommunicado until either Moogie or...
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