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unemployed

[ uhn-em-ploid ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

not employed; without a job; out of work:
an unemployed secretary.
Synonyms: jobless, idle, unoccupied, at liberty
not currently in use:
unemployed productive capacity.
not productively used:
unemployed capital.

, (used with a plural verb)

unemployed

/ ˌʌnɪmˈplɔɪd /

1. without remunerative employment; out of work
2. ( as collective noun; preceded by the )
  the unemployed
not being used; idle

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First recorded in 1590–1600; un- ¹ + employ + -ed ²

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Around half the Baluch in the province are unemployed, a result, say rights groups, of longstanding marginalization by Tehran.

A new WPA would have helped create jobs and provided some training to underemployed or unemployed youth.

The unemployed have a right to be anxious about the ravages on their families exacted by their unemployment.

Since the spill, the number of unemployed residents in Louisiana and Alabama has only increased.

A few held signs addressed to George, asking him to “adopt an unemployed worker.”

Governmental care of the unemployed, the infant and the infirm, sounds like a chapter in socialism.

There was no attempt to set all the unemployed to work, and no desire to confine to them the staff that was engaged.

The Unemployed Workmen Act carries this contrary policy of discrimination according to merit into the class of the able-bodied.

The loss of trade brought Bruges face to face with the 'question of the unemployed' in a very aggravated form.

In 1905 the Unemployed Workmen Act created a rival authority for relieving the able-bodied man.

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