n.a failure to be active as a consequence of lack of initiative or ambition

Joblessness or shiftlessness: labor force activity in Chicago's inner-city.
1972 Dart's Shiftlessness Just May Be Irreversible
Ivory Harvesting Pressure on the Genome of the African Elephant: A Phenotypic Shift to Tusklessness
From purposelessness to purpose a study of shift in perspective in select novels of iris Murdoch
The Urban Underclass.
Son of the Middle Border
Collateral Damage: SOUTHEAST ASIAN POVERTY IN THE UNITED STATES
Conserving Walt Whitman's Fame
HickeyDaniel, Local hospitals in ancien regime France: rationalization, resistance, renewal, 1530–1789, Montreal and London, McGill...
Shifting into Gear