inactive
Lifestyle choices such as smoking, overeating, and physical inactivity contribute to many health problems.
Annoyed by her enforced inactivity, she made a restless patient.
Employment is up while unemployment and economic inactivity is down.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Passive and not working
adynamic
anywhere
breather
breathing space
bum
bum around
idle
laze
leave someone beidiom
lie around
moribund
navel
non-physical
recharge
siesta
sit on your handsidiom
sit round
slob
slob around (something)
slop around (something)

inactivity | Business English

inactivity
noun[ U ]
uk /ˌɪnækˈtɪvəti/us
the situation when not much is happening, for example when not much buying or selling is taking place:
a long period of inactivity
inactivity in the financial markets

Examples of inactivity

inactivity
During the dry season the locusts could be approached nearer than during the rains, owing to their inactivity when the humidity is low.
We imagine that waiting is a state of suspension, of inactivity, a state of physical inactivity and lack of forward movement.
Disability and unemployment insurance funds have been utilised in particular as alternative pathways to inactivity.
In addition to concerns about health status, some participants believed that the assumed high levels of physical inactivity reinforced a stereotypical view of ageing.
The other -calculus constructs are group restriction and inactivity.
In the last row of the table, the fractional inactivity time is calculated from the duration of the assignment.
The initial phase of inactivity was followed by active support for multilateral liberalization.
These constraints make directly conflicting requirements, but still the domination of one by the other is not tantamount to the inactivity of the dominated constraint.
The design fluency is dependent on the fractional inactivity time, which is a relative measure of inactivity to activity.
Such an inhibitory mechanism would help the brain go into a cortical idling mode during periods of mental inactivity.
Likewise, the report does not include a review of preventive measures such as interventions against risk factors like overweight or inactivity.
The reasons are not clear, but may involve poor nutritional habits, physical inactivity, heavy smoking and long-term exposure to psychoactive drugs.
Meanwhile, flexible forms of work have grown and are increasingly promoted as promising solutions to the ' problem ' of economic inactivity in later life.
During the experiments, the microorganisms were subjected to freezing, frozen inactivity and thawing.
In fact, it is not the recurrence of drought but, rather, the recurrence of major volcanic activity (or inactivity) that produces this anomaly.
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