This time was most dreadful for Lilian. Thrown on her own resources and almost penniless, she maintained herself and paid the rent of a wretched room near the hospital by working as a charwoman, sempstress, anything. In a moment she had dropped to the level of acasual labourer.
It was acasual sneer, obviously one of a long line. There was hatred behind it, but of a quiet, chronic type, nothing new or unduly virulent, and he was taken aback by the flicker of amazed incredulity that passed over the younger man's ravaged face.
2012, Jeff Miller,Grown at Glen Garden: Ben Hogan, Byron Nelson, and the Little Texas Golf Course that Propelled Them to Stardom:
Hogan assumed the entire creek bed was to be played as acasual hazard, moved his ball out and assessed himself a one-stroke penalty.
Of the scavagers proper there are, as in all classes of unskilled labour, that is to say, of labour which requires no previous apprenticeship, and to which any one can “turn his hand” on an emergency, two distinct orders of workmen, “the regulars andcasuals” to adopt the trade terms; that is to say, the labourers consist of those who have been many years at the trade, constantly employed at it, and those who have but recently taken to it as a means of obtaining a subsistence after their ordinary resources have failed.
A soldier temporarily at a place of duty, usually en route to another place of duty.
2019 September 14, Miranda Sawyer, “Mark Leckey: ‘There has to be a belief that art has this power, this charisma'”, inThe Guardian[1]:
At 15, he became acasual: one of the label-wearing, wedge-flicking, swaggering hooligan peacock boys who dominated the north-west when I was growing up.Casuals were working-class lads (called Perry boys in Manchester) who loved football, fighting and brilliant sportswear.
During the great prevalence of vagrancy, the cost of the sick was far greater than the expense of relief. In the quarter ending June 1848, no less than 322casuals were under medical treatment, either in the workhouse of the Wandsworth and Clapham union or at the London Fever Hospital.
1972, Lee C. Garrison, "The Needs of Motion Picture Audiences",California Management Review, Volume 15, Issue 2, Winter 1972, page 149:
Casuals outnumbered regulars in the art-house audience two to one.
2010, Jennifer Gillan,Television and New Media: Must-Click TV,page16:
Most often, when a series is marketed towardcasuals, the loyals feel that their interests and needs are not being met.
2018, E. J. Nielsen, “The Gay Elephant Meta in the Room:Sherlock and the Johnlock Conspiracy”, in Joseph Brennan, editor,Queerbaiting and Fandom: Teasing Fans Through Homoerotic Possibilities,page91:
Treating a gay relationship as a puzzle that must be pursued by the clever viewers and hidden from “casuals” until a narrative reveal at the eleventh hour seems antithetical to the idea of normalized representation that TJLCers claim as the main reason they want Johnlock to be canon,[…]
I was a boy in 1922 or 1923, when buses first started to run between the village and the town; there were tramps,casuals as they were called; the whole pattern of my boyhood was knit into a very loaded atmosphere of human character.
