able-bodied
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able-bodied (comparative more able-bodied, superlative most able-bodied)
- (possessional) Having a sound, strong body; physically competent; robust; fit for service.
- 1893, James Anthony Froude, History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Defeat of the Spanish Armada:
- A servant determinately idle, leaving his work, or an able-bodied vagrant, roaming the country without means of honest self-support and without seeking employment, was to be brought before the two nearest magistrates.
- (nautical) Capable of performing all requisite duties as a seaman, specifically in the Royal Navy, a rating between leading and ordinary.
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having a sound, strong body; physically competent; robust
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