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non-able-bodied en · ADJ

Etymology

From non- + able-bodied.

Meanings

1. Not able-bodied; disabled.
   • It was directed in August 1877 that, on works under the Public Works Department, able-bodied labourers who did not perform the tasks should be paid only for the portion done, though the effect might be to reduce their wages below the rate paid on works under Civil Agency; but that non-able-bodied labourers should be paid not less than the Civil Agency rates. 1880, Henry Wilberforce Clarke, Report on the Railway Famine-traffic in the Presidencies of Madras and Bombay and the Province of Maisur, page 9:
   • It will be admitted that a vast difference must occur between the numbers of those who are bedridden, cripple and wholly disabled and those merely of a non-able-bodied class, who can only earn one-third of their previous wages. 1914, Thomas Smith, Everybody's Guide to the Insurance Acts, 1911-1913, page 183:
   • I will next deal with the whole question of the non-able-bodied, dealing with the Bill as it treats the non-able-bodied as a whole. 1910, Parliamentary Debates (Hansard), page 801:
   • One gets the distinct impression that Kirby, the genre's greatest master of superheroic action, doesn't quite know what to do with a non-able-bodied man who is not a villain. 2014, José Alaniz, Death, Disability, and the Superhero: The Silver Age and Beyond:

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