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at-will
[ at-wil ]
adjective
- being, relating to, or involved in a work agreement that the employer or employee may legally end at any time without notice or cause:
Companies in this industry often use both contract and at-will employment options.
Since they aren't at-will employees, they can only be discharged with cause.
Even in at-will states, employers cannot fire you for discriminatory reasons.
Word History and Origins
Origin of at-will1
Idioms and Phrases
Freely, as one pleases, as in The grounds are open to the public and one can wander about at will , or With this thermostat you can adjust the room temperature at will . [1300s]Example Sentences
These people depend upon the land for their subsistence, but they are tenants-at-will.
The provision which conferred a vote on the tenant-at-will, abrogated leases, and made the tiller of the soil a vassal.
The cultivators are still, for the most part, tenants-at-will, rack-rented and debt-ridden.
At all hazards they must be made tenants-at-will, and brought completely under his control.
But he was bent on crushing the independent yeomanry into the abject condition of tenants-at-will.
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