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The question should perhaps have been asked on the Politics site. But I think a term already exists - it is called provision of zero-hours contracts.

Perhaps unbeatably would work better. It carries more validity as a word, and in a sentence with several long words it is less of a mouthful. Or another possibility might be invincibly. That's a word …

I can think of sycophantic, servile, subservient, grovelling, toadying, fawning, ingratiating, bootlicking. Do any of those work?

Is the answer not confirmation. It is certainly "that which confirms". It also works with your example sentence: The confirmation was broken, and clients were unable to establish the requests were s …

I think I would use matinal, which the OED holds to have the same meaning as matutinal. However the latter they designate as now chiefly literary. The examples they provide, for matinal across three …

I think what you may be looking for here is what the OED lists as sense d, of the phrase in order - which is indicated as Orig. US. d. Originally U.S. Appropriate to or befitting the occasion; su …

The word you need is "trustworthy", but you will need to modify your sentences slightly to include that e.g. "The position of babysitter is not a trivial one - it requires trustworthiness". Or "You n …

There is an historical record of third morrow meaning the same thing as overmorrow. See OED sense 2b of morrow. So presumably there is no reason one could not use "fourth", "fifth" or "sixth" morrow. …

Galvanise is a metaphor for "protect" - though extended usage may have more to do with "springing into action". But here I just think it means "protect". It comes from the practice of coating metal ob …

"Unknown" means exactly the same thing as "not known". However both terms can be ambiguous, in that they include both things of which the subject is unaware, as well as things of which they are aware …

If you are asking someone to dinner, there really isn't any need to say the word please. A simple "Would you like to come and have dinner with me on Thursday?" is perfectly courteous. You only need p …

In Britain, the two words stomp and stamp are used rather differently. A stamp is a stamp, irrespective of whether it is done angrily or in excitement. I stamp on a twig to break it, or to flatten a p …

The only synonyms for that sense of discipline (meaning a "field of study"), which I could find were subject area and speciality. I sense the term you need is subject area. …

It is one thing to laugh quietly, something altogether different to "snigger", "giggle" or "chuckle" - especially "snigger". I am not sure the OP has in mind someone doing any of these as all carry s …

I do not recall ever seeing robust used in quite that way, and a quick search through the many different senses of the word in the OED did not reveal any use of robust with a preposition. The word, o …