Word: disoccupation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From dis- + occupation. 1. Lack of occupation; The state of having nothing to occupy one's time; idleness. Labels: uncountable Example: Nay it is well if this diſoccupation of the intellect do not lead from ſloth to improper indulgences. Example: Mortification, mingled perhaps with the pain of a tardy repentance, and rendered more distressing by the sudden change from an active life to a life of solitary disocucupation, soon began to tell upon his health; and after several months of rigorous imprisonment, obtaining permission to go to the West Indies, he set out upon his voyage of exile, and was never heard of more. 2. Synonym of unemployment. Labels: uncountable Example: The following demands were made: An effective law protecting women, the election of women factory inspectors, old age government pensions going into effect at the age of 55, prevention of disoccupation by establishing the eight-hour day insurance against disoccupation, a minimum limit of wages, state and municipal public works for the unemployed, agricultural colonies, etc. Example: There are also the obligatory insurances for disoccupation and old age, with progressive percentages, the maximum rate of which is, however, always applied, in view of the rates of pay; that is, 4.20 lire monthly for disoccupation, and 12 lire for old age. 3. The removal of the occupants of a place. Labels: uncountable Example: Regarding the matter of the disoccupation of the land, on which point the plaintiff appealed, the court is of the opinion that the defendant cannot be dispossessed until the plaintiff has paid for the improvements, as provided for in the above mentioned article. Example: If the plaintiff desired to insist upon the fulfillment of his contract with Ayesa y Compañía, he should have insisted upon its fulfillment at the time of the disoccupation, and should not have given his consent to the disoccupation of the property in question. 4. The process of ending a military occupation. Labels: uncountable Example: He was trying to have laborers organized to help out the other people in the country, newspaper men and other organizations that were working for the disoccupation of the Republic by the forces of the United States . Example: Inasmuch as the occupation of the Bolivian littoral by Chilean forces was the consequence of a decree issued by the Government of La Paz in annulment of the contract of the Compan~ia de Salitres y Ferrocarril de Anto fagasta, and since it is undignified for either Chile or Peru, and consequently impossible, to enter into any peaceful settlement unless these serious obstacles be removed previously by each of the parties, you will propose to the Government of Chile, in case this mediation should be accepted, the restoration of things to the state in which they were before the recent occurrences, that is, the disoccupation of the territory of Bolivia , provided the latter Republic be disposed, on her part, to suspend the aforementioned decree in rescission of the law by which a tax of ten centavos was placed on every quintal of saltpeter exported by the Compan~ia de Antofagasta, and the subsequent submission of these differences to the arbitration that the two Governments may deem it wise to constitute. 5. The use of art to convert a space to one that reveals "emptiness", as opposed to one that is merely empty; the revelation of negative space by sculpture. Labels: uncountable Example: I posit the aethetic nature of the Statue as a purely spatial organism, to be exact, the active disoccupation of the Statue through the fusion of lightweight or unimposing formal elements. Example: In cultural terms this was reflected in ETA's appreciation of Baque sculptor Jorge Oteiza's artistic theory of the disoccupation of space.