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Definition: Able-bodied |
Able-bodiedAdjective1. Having a strong healthy body; "an able seaman"; "every able-bodied young man served in the army". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "able-bodied" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1776. (references) |
Synonym: Able-bodiedSynonym: able (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Strength | Able-bodied; athletic; Herculean, Cyclopean, Atlantean; muscular, brawny, wiry, well-knit, broad-shouldered, sinewy, strapping, stalwart, gigantic. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Able-bodied |
| English words defined with "able-bodied": able, able-bodied seaman, able-bodiedism, able-bodism, ableism, ablism ♦ Levy in mass ♦ posseman ♦ workhouse. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "able-bodied": regalia. (references) |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Air gun for sub-bottom profiling Able-bodied Seaman Bob Rojecki making adjustments prior to deployment Used off of the SURVEYOR.Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
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Children | Iceland | In reaction to the ruling, Parliament passed legislation in January that increased the minimum payment to persons with disabilities who have able-bodied spouses. (references) |
Djibouti | Persons with disabilities have difficulty finding employment in an economy where at least 60 percent of the able-bodied adult male population is underemployed or jobless. (references) | |
Iceland | The city is spending approximately $175,000 (17.5 million krona) a year on this project, which it aims to have completed by 2006. In 2000 the Supreme Court ruled that the extent to which the State was reducing social security payments to persons with disabilities based on the income of their able-bodied spouses was unconstitutional. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Pakistan | Most able-bodied male refugees have found at least intermittent employment; however, they are not covered by local labor laws. (references) |
Economic History | Andorra | All able-bodied men who own firearms must serve, without remuneration, in the small army, which is unique in that all of its men are treated as officers. (references) |
Singapore | The defense budget accounts for approximately 28% of government operating expenditures (or 5% of GDP). A career military force of 20,000 is supplemented by 55,000 persons on active National Service, which is compulsory for able-bodied young men, and another 225,000 reservists. (references) | |
Political Economy | Switzerland | The armed forces are a civilian-controlled militia based on universal military service for able-bodied males. (references) |
Worker Rights | Panama | In many small rural communities, the entire able-bodied population participates in a harvest, and parents are not willing to leave their children behind unattended. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | REGALIA, n. Distinguishing insignia, jewels and costume of such ancient and honorable orders as Knights of Adam; Visionaries of Detectable Bosh; the Ancient Order of Modern Troglodytes; the League of Holy Humbug; the Golden Phalanx of Phalangers; the Genteel Society of Expurgated Hoodlums; the Mystic Alliances of Georgeous Regalians; Knights and Ladies of the Yellow Dog; the Oriental Order of Sons of the West; the Blatherhood of Insufferable Stuff; Warriors of the Long Bow; Guardians of the Great Horn Spoon; the Band of Brutes; the Impenitent Order of Wife-Beaters; the Sublime Legion of Flamboyant Conspicuants; Worshipers at the Electroplated Shrine; Shining Inaccessibles; Fee-Faw-Fummers of the inimitable Grip; Jannissaries of the Broad-Blown Peacock; Plumed Increscencies of the Magic Temple; the Grand Cabal of Able-Bodied Sedentarians; Associated Deities of the Butter Trade; the Garden of Galoots; the Affectionate Fraternity of Men Similarly Warted; the Flashing Astonishers; Ladies of Horror; Cooperative Association for Breaking into the Spotlight; Dukes of Eden; Disciples Militant of the Hidden Faith; Knights-Champions of the Domestic Dog; the Holy Gregarians; the Resolute Optimists; the Ancient Sodality of Inhospitable Hogs; Associated Sovereigns of Mendacity; Dukes-Guardian of the Mystic Cess-Pool; the Society for Prevention of Prevalence; Kings of Drink; Polite Federation of Gents-Consequential; the Mysterious Order of the Undecipherable Scroll; Uniformed Rank of Lousy Cats; Monarchs of Worth and Hunger; Sons of the South Star; Prelates of the Tub-and-Sword. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
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Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | Then last year, Congress enacted landmark welfare reform legislation, demanding that all able-bodied recipients assume the responsibility of moving from welfare to work. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Able-bodied" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Able-bodied" is used about 146 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 146 | 26,107 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "able-bodied"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 有能力. (various references) | |
Danish | raske personer (able-bodied people). (various references) | |
Dutch | gezond van lýf en leden. (various references) | |
Esperanto | sankorpa. (various references) | |
Finnish | asekuntoinen (fit for military service). (various references) | |
French | personnes valides (able-bodied people), main-d'oeuvre physiquement apte (able-bodied labour). (various references) | |
German | Nichtbehinderte (able-bodied people), gesunde Bevölkerung (able-bodied people). (various references) | |
Greek | υγιή άτομα (able-bodied people). (various references) | |
Hungarian | katonai szolgálatra alkalmas (be fit for military service, fit for service, to fit for service), jó erőben levő (green, hale). (various references) | |
Indonesian | sehat wal afiat. (various references) | |
Italian | persone abili al lavoro (able-bodied people). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 健 (robust health). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | が"け" (aforementioned, antecedent, Cancer Research Institute, eyelid, full authority, plenipotentiary powers, previous case, robust health, wise men of the past), きょうそう (boat race, competition, contest, mania, race, regatta, robust, strong, sturdy, wild excitement). (various references) | |
Manx | loor (lusty, nimble, stout, stouthearted, strapping), lajer (cogent, forcible, forte, hard, heady, heavy, high-power, high-powered, lusty, potent, powerful, pronounced, rich, sound, stark, stout, strong, vigorous, vigorous as plant), corplajer, abyl (adroit, businesslike, capable, powerful, slick, smart). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | able-bodieday.(various references) | |
Portuguese | são (are, Hale, healthful, healthy, laudanum, sane, sound, they are, well balanced, whole, wholesome). (various references) | |
Russian | трудоспособный (able bodied, ablebodied, employable). (various references) | |
Spanish | personas válidas (able-bodied people), marinero de primera (able-bodied seaman). (various references) | |
Swedish | arbetsför (able bodied), stark (able bodied, emphatic, forcible, hot, intense, keen, loud, lusty, poignant, potent, powerful, sharp, sinewy, strong, substantial, tough, vigorous, violent). (various references) | |
Turkish | usta gemici (able-bodied seaman). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Able-bodied" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ablebodied. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "able-bodied" (pronounced 'A`ble-bod"ied'): Citied, Disbodied, Foistied, honied, Lilied, monied, Rosied, Unbusied, unembodied, Unpitied, unstudied. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-b-d-d-e-e-i-l-o" | |
-2 letters: beddable, beladied, biddable. | |
-3 letters: addible, bielded, bilobed, dabbled, dibbled, lobbied. | |
-4 letters: abided, aboded, aedile, albedo, babied, baddie, bailed, bailee, balded, beaded, beadle, belied, bilboa, bladed, bodied, boiled, bolide, dabbed, dabble, delead, dialed, dibbed, dibble, dildoe, doable, doiled, edible, eidola, elided, elodea, laddie, leaded, loaded, lobbed, obelia. | |
-5 letters: abele, abide, abode, aboil, addle, adobe, aided, ailed, babel, baled, bedel, belie, bible, bided, bield, bilbo, blade, bleed, boded, dedal, deled, dildo, diode, dobie, dobla, doled, ebbed, edile, elide, ideal, idled, laded, lobed, obeli, oiled, oldie. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-b-d-d-e-e-i-l-o" | |
+3 letters: biodegradable. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 62 6C 65 2D 62 6F 64 69 65 64 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01100010 01101100 01100101 00101101 01100010 01101111 01100100 01101001 01100101 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A b l e - b o d i e d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0062 006C 0065 002D 0062 006F 0064 0069 0065 0064 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3568787115688170757170 |
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