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unemployed

DEFINITIONS OF: unemployed

1

adj not engaged in a gainful occupation

“unemployed workers marched on the capital”
Synonyms
idle
not in action or at work
discharged, dismissed, fired, laid-off, pink-slipped
having lost your job
idle, jobless, out of work
not having a job
Antonyms:
employed
having your services engaged for; or having a job especially one that pays wages or a salary
busy
actively or fully engaged or occupied
engaged
having services contracted for
hired
having services engaged for a fee
on the job, working
actively engaged in paid work
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n people who are involuntarily out of work (considered as a group)

“the long-term unemployed need assistance”
Synonyms:
unemployed people
Type of:
people
(plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively
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