casually

casual | American Dictionary

casual
adjective
us/ˈkæʒ·u·əl/

casualadjective (NOT SERIOUS)

not serious or careful in attitude; only partly interested:
a casual glance at a magazine
Even to the casual observer, the forgery was obvious.

casualadjective (INFORMAL)

not formal; relaxed in style or manner:
We have a small office and I am very casual and wear slacks and sports shirts and things like that.

casualadjective (TEMPORARY)

not regular or frequent; temporary or done sometimes:
casual laborers
Casual also means slight:
He was only a casual acquaintance – I didn’t know him well.

casualadjective (NOT PLANNED)

not intended or planned:
a casual remark
casual conversation

casually

adverbus/ˈkæʒ·ə·wə·li/
We were told to dress casually for the walking tour.

casual | Business English

casual
adjective
uk /ˈkæʒjuəl/ us /ˈkæʒuəl/
HR
used to describe work that is not permanent, or workers that are not employed permanently but only when a company needs them:
casual employee/worker/labourerMost casual workers are paid by the day or hour.
casual work/jobs/labourAfter leaving school she had a range of casual jobs.
She does not intend necessarily to give up work but may work on a casual basis.
WORKPLACE
casual clothes are informal:
casual clothes/dress/attireResearch shows that 90% of US companies now allow casual dress regularly.
The style of dress in the office could best be described as business casual rather than formal.
casual
noun
UKuk /ˈkæʒjuəl/ us /ˈkæʒuəl/
[ C ] HR
a worker who is not employed permanently but only when a company needs them:
On the whole, semi-skilled and unskilled positions are filled by casuals.
 casuals[ plural ]
WORKPLACE
informal clothing:
Last January, the firm dispensed with any requirement to wear business suits and about half the staff now opt for casuals.

Examples of casual

casual
She successfully overcomes her fear of hurting casual acquaintances' feelings and ultimately, though tactfully, tells them the truth.
Most of the women were casual workers working, typically, with low capital investment in tools and technology.
The book is exhaustively researched, more than amply documented, and engagingly written for both serious research scholars and casual readers.
Applicants for casual relief first attended on the overseer or churchwarden of the individual parish, men who were appointed annually.
However, the use of the term in this context appears to have been casual since artists were never an official estate.
It also turned their attention towards discussions that were more systematic than exchanges of casual remarks.
Casual observations and basic research have shown that population densities can be much higher than in rural habitats due to abundant availability of food.
It would be nice if type errors could be filtered and translated so that they are more informative to casual users of the library.
The contrast between crown vigilance in protecting its income and its casual attitude toward complaints about dissent could not have been more marked.
Even a casual glance at much of the imported pabulum, both organic and conventional, lurking on the supermarket shelf lends strength to that particular argument.
The answer that it was "out of a sudden, casual curiosity" will not do.
Reformers denigrated the casual and inhumane mode of legislating in the eighteenth century and estimated that over 200 capital offences had been created.
A properly regulated union workhouse would perhaps deter the great numbers of casual applicants and control those who entered its doors.
But within these limits, it also stabilised his power by restricting casual workers to his patronage.
As figure 2 shows the labour input of core workers remained relatively steady throughout the year, while that of casual workers had - unsurprisingly - summer peaks.
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