idler
Noun
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Noun
idler (plural idlers)
- One who idles; one who spends his or her time in inaction.
- One who idles; a lazy person; a sluggard.
- (nautical, dated) Any member of a ship's crew who is not required to keep the night-watch
- A mechanical device such as a pulley or wheel that does not transmit power, but supports a moving belt etc.
- (lazy person) see Thesaurus:idler
- French: fainéant, fainéante
- German: untätiger Mitarbeiter, untätige Mitarbeiterin
- Russian: тунея́дец
- Spanish: ocioso
- French: fainéant, fainéante
- German: Faulpelz, Faulenzer, Faulenzerin, (figuratively) Drohne
- Italian: fannullone, scansafatiche, sfaticato, poltrone, pigrone, sfaccendato, ozioso
- Russian: безде́льник
- Spanish: holgazán, flojo, remolón, comodón, zángano
- comparative form of idle
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