Definitions for unemployed
ˌʌn ɛmˈplɔɪdun·em·ployed

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. unemployed people, unemployedadjective

   people who are involuntarily out of work (considered as a group)

   "the long-term unemployed need assistance"

2. unemployedadjective

   not engaged in a gainful occupation

   "unemployed workers marched on the capital"

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. unemployednoun

   Unemployed people.

   The unemployed are a growing portion of the population.

2. unemployedadjective

   Having no profession (despite being able and willing to work).

3. unemployedadjective

   Having no use, not doing work

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Unemployedadjective

   1. Not busy; at leisure; idle.

   Other creatures, all day long
   Rove idle, unemploy’d, and less need rest. John Milton, Par. Lost.

   Wilt thou then serve Philistines with that gift,
   Which was expresly given thee to annoy them?
   Better at home lie bedrid, not only idle,
   Inglorious, unemploy’d, with age out-worn. John Milton.

   Our wise creator has annexed to several objects, and to the ideas we receive of them, as also, to several of our thoughts, a concomitant pleasure, that those faculties which we are endowed with, might not remain idle and unemployed. John Locke.

   2. Not engaged in any particular work.

   Pales unhonour’d, Ceres unemploy’d,
   Were all forgot. Dryden.

   Men, soured with poverty, and unemploy’d, easily give into any prospect of change. Addison.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Unemployedadjective

   not employed in manual or other labor; having no regular work

2. Unemployedadjective

   not invested or used; as, unemployed capital

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Unemployed

   un-em-ploid′, adj. out of work: not put to use or profit.—n. Unemploy′ment.

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'unemployed' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #3690

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'unemployed' in Written Corpus Frequency: #2247

3. Adjectives Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'unemployed' in Adjectives Frequency: #472

How to pronounce unemployed?

1. Alex

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   Mark

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   Daniel

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   Libby

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   Mia

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   Karen

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   Zira

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   Oliver

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   Tessa

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How to say unemployed in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of unemployed in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of unemployed in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of unemployed in a Sentence

1. Sam Bullard:

   Most recently, continuing claims have plateaued and suggest that we could be seeing an early sign that employers are calling back employees as states begin to re-open, focus should continue to center on continuing claims, which provide a better idea of the challenges unemployed workers face and also some insight into the hit to GDP growth.

2. Ty Burrell:

   Salt Lake City was hit twice, the Covid crisis and also a series of earthquakes, about 15,000 [ restaurant workers ] are unemployed right now.

3. Bernie Sanders:

   Black people are dying in this country because we have a criminal justice system which is out of control, a system in which over 50% of young African-American kids are unemployed, it is estimated that a black baby born today has a one in four chance of ending up in the criminal justice system.

4. Bernie Sanders:

   We have to end institutional racism but we have to deal with the reality that 50% of young black kids are unemployed, that we have massive poverty in America, that we have an unsustainable level of income and wealth inequality, as Martin Luther King Jr. told us, we have address both.

5. Yannis Ktistakis:

   These are not just attacks by frustrated unemployed people, the climate has deteriorated.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=unemployed
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Unemployed
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=unemployed
4. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/unemployed
5. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=unemployed