Unemployed Definition

ŭnĕm-ploid, -ĭm-
adjective
Not employed; without work.
Webster's New World
Not being used; idle.
Webster's New World
Having no profession (despite being able and willing to work).
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noun
People who are involuntarily out of work considered as a group. Used with the.
American Heritage
Unemployed people.
The unemployed are a growing portion of the population.
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Synonyms:
  • unemployed people

Other Word Forms of Unemployed

Noun

Singular:
unemployed
Plural:
unemployeds

Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Unemployed

  • the unemployed

Origin of Unemployed

Unemployed Sentence Examples

  • Howard was unemployed but was forced to eat an expensive lease.

  • You've got more time on your hands than an unemployed whaler.

  • Large numbers of unemployed, ex-criminal and other needy persons have been aided or dealt with.

  • A numerous floating population of labourers, attracted at certain periods by pressing work in the port, and afterwards left unemployed owing to the enormous fluctuations in the corn trade, is one of the features of Odessa.

  • A large public park, opened in 1866, was laid out as a relief work for unemployed operatives during the cotton famine of the earlier part of the decade.

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Words Starting With

UUNUNE

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DEDYED

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