non-ablebodied

English

Adjective

non-ablebodied (comparative more non-ablebodied, superlative most non-ablebodied)

1. Alternative form of non-able-bodied
   • 1912, Henry Roe Cloud, “My People and the Christian Road”, in The Assembly Herald, volume 18, page 89:

     About 10 per cent. are non-ablebodied.

   • 1913, Sidney Webb, Beatrice Webb, English Poor Law Policy, page 301:

     Of the non-ablebodied paupers—and it is for the non-ablebodied that the Scottish Poor Law lawfully provides—there remain only "the feebleminded," and the epileptic, and the persons of "unsound mind," who make up nearly one-fifth of the whole of Scottish pauperism.

   • 1982, Legislative Acts of the USSR: 1980-1981, page 115:

     for three or more non-ablebodied family membes, 110 percent, and for two non-ablebodied family members, 100 per cent of the old-age pension calculated as provided for in Article 13 of the Law in percentage of earnings of the breadwinner;