unemployed
nounEtymology From un- + employed.
1
With the The unemployed people of a society or the world, taken collectively.
unemployed
adj/ˌʌnɪmˈplɔɪd/
Etymology From un- + employed.
1
Having no job despite being able and willing to work.
- The government announced a new initiative to help the unemployed.
- The number of unemployed keeps rising steadily.
1 more example
- Several special types of unemployed workers are described. These include nonmodal workers, threshold workers, "the unemployables", and the physically handicapped.1934, United States. Bureau of Employment Security, Employment Security Review, volumes 2-5, page 15:
2
Having no use, not doing work
- England's attacking impetus was limited to one shot from Lampard that was comfortably collected by keeper Iker Casillas, but for all Spain's domination of the ball his England counterpart Joe Hart was unemployed.2011 November 12, “International friendly: England 1-0 Spain”, in BBC Sport:
- Synonyms
- between jobs, employmentally challenged, idle, jobless, nonemployed, occupationless, on the wallaby, on the wallaby track, out of a job, out of work, resting, unbusied, unemployed, workless
- Derived terms
- funemployed, shake hands with the unemployed, unemployedness
- Related terms
- unemployment, lay off
- Hypernyms
- lacking
- Hyponyms
- funemployed, laid-off, Withnailesque