disoccupation

English

Etymology

From dis- +‎ occupation.

Noun

disoccupation (uncountable)

1. Lack of occupation; The state of having nothing to occupy one's time; idleness.
   • 1808, [Hannah More], chapter XXI, in Cœlebs in Search of a Wife. […], volume I, London: […] [Strahan and Preston] for T[homas] Cadell and W[illiam] Davies, […], →OCLC, page 318:

     Nay it is well if this diſoccupation of the intellect do not lead from ſloth to improper indulgences.

   • 1867, George Washington Greene, The Life of Nathanael Greene, Major-general in the Army of the Revolution, page 121:

     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.

   • 1870 September, William Dean Howells, “A Day's Pleasure”, in The Atlantic Monthly, volume 26, number 155, page 344:

     At the Port station Frank was pleased and soothed by the tranquil air of the policeman, who sat in his shirt-sleeves outside the door, and seemed to announce, by his attitude of final disoccupation, that crimes and misdemeanors were no more.

   • 2011, Caroline Hellman, Domesticity and Design in American Women’s Lives and Literature:

     Toward the end of The House of Mirth, Lily Bart attempts to locate a warm space populated by sympathetic people, and instead finds herself “stranded in a great waste of disoccupation.”

2. Synonym of unemployment
   • 1903 October, “Socialism Abroad”, in The International Socialist Review, volume 4, number 4, page 247:

     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.

   • 1924, Henry Coit MacLean, Italian Tax Reforms, page 3:

     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.

   • 2008, Business Venezuela - Issues 290-294, page 79:

     On the other hand, the disoccupied labor force represented 6.3% of the economically active population, or a total of 790.578 persons, dropping 13.7% compared to the disoccupation rate recorded in October of this same year; and a 26.1% drop compared to the disoccupation rate in November 2006.

3. The removal of the occupants of a place.
   • 1909, Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court [and District Court] of the Canal Zone, page 44:

     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.

   • 1910, Philippines. Supreme Court, Reports of Cases Determined in the Supreme Court of the Philippine Islands, page 374:

     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.

   • 1990, T. Patrick Culbert, ‎ Don Stephen Rice, Precolumbian Population History in the Maya Lowlands, page 115:

     Another adjustment is necessary to allow for the fact that at any given moment some platforms in a community must have been temporarily unoccupied, as for example, when an old house had become unusable and nobody had gotten around to building a new one. That disoccupation is a universal phenomenon is evident from modern data, but there is no way of determining its magnitude at a prehistoric site.

   • 1991, William Harris Isbell, ‎Gordon Francis McEwan, Huari Administrative Structure, page 43:

     This leads us to suggest that the disoccupation of the Moraduchayuq Compound was a relatively gradual and long process.

4. The process of ending a military occupation.
   • 1922, United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Haiti and Santo Domingo, Inquiry Into Occupation and Administration of Haiti and Santo Domingo:

     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 .

   • 1924, Tacna-Arica Arbitration, page 118:

     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.

   • 1931, United States. Department of State, Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, page liv:

     The Government proposes that we should agree to execute later a "protocol of disoccupation" and that meanwhile the brigade commander should withdraw the proclamations establishing martial law and subjecting the Haitian people to trial by provost courts.

   • 2016, Michel S. Laguerre, The Multisite Nation, page 31:

     Homelands may take the initiative, especially in the cases where diasporans played a leadership role in their military disoccupation and liberation from foreign powers or the achievement of homeland independence.

5. (art) 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.
   • 1957, Jorge Oteiza, Experimental Proposal 1956-1957:

     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.

   • 1999, William A. Douglass, Basque Politics and Nationalism on the Eve of the Millennium, page 107:

     In cultural terms this was reflected in ETA's appreciation of Baque sculptor Jorge Oteiza's artistic theory of the disoccupation of space.

   • 2016, Elixabete Ansa Goicoechea, “From Pre-Columbian Masks to the Basque Cromlech: The Art of Unconcealment through Jorge Oteiza”, in Andrew Reynolds, ‎ Bonnie Roos, editor, Behind the Masks of Modernism, page 105:

     the mask is what in "Experimental Proposition" is identified as the funerary stele, the disoccupation of space that sets the man in relation to the beyond.