inwork

noun

1. Indoor work; work done inside the home.

   rare, uncountable

   Many respondents saw their earnings as a marginal, even though often essential, contribution to the household budget and one outside the formal constraints of inwork.

Where it comes from

From Middle English *inwork, *inwerk, from Old English inweorc (“indoor work”), from Proto-West Germanic *inwerk, equivalent to in- + work. Cognate with Scots inwark, inwork (“domestic work, indoor work”).

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry inwork (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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