OVERLABOURING Antonyms

• having no employment

• affording physical or mental rest

• the evasion of work or duty

• an upholstered seat for more than one person

• a room (as in a hotel or airport) with seating where people can wait

• sit or recline comfortably

• be about a place without any apparent purpose

• lack of attention and due care

• the state of something that has been unused and neglected

• willful lack of care and attention

• the trait of neglecting responsibilities and lacking concern

• failure to act with the prudence that a reasonable person would exercise under the same circumstances

• leave undone or leave out

• fail to do something; leave something undone

• fail to attend to

• give little or no attention to

• something left after other parts have been taken away

• freedom from activity (work or strain or responsibility)

• a pause for relaxation

• a state of inaction

• euphemisms for death (based on an analogy between lying in a bed and in a tomb)

• a support on which things can be put

• a musical notation indicating a silence of a specified duration

• not move; be in a resting position

• take a short break from one's activities in order to relax

• give a rest to

• have a place in relation to something else

• be at rest

• stay the same; remain in a certain state

• be inherent or innate in

• put something in a resting position, as for support or steadying

• sit, as on a branch

• rest on or as if on a pillow

• be inactive, refrain from acting

• draw out a discussion or process in order to gain time

• To require too little work from; to work insufficiently.

• To work or operate in secret or clandestinely.

• To do less work than necessary (on).

• To do work for inadequate payment.

• To injure by working secretly; to destroy or overthrow by clandestine measure; to undermine.

• To do similar work for a lesser price than; to undercut.

• Lower or underlying workings