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Adjective: unemployed  `únem'ployd
  1. Not engaged in a gainful occupation
    "unemployed workers marched on the capital"
Noun: unemployed  `únem'ployd
  1. People who are involuntarily out of work (considered as a group)
    "the long-term unemployed need assistance"
    - unemployed people

Derived forms: unemployeds

See also: discharged, dismissed, fired, idle, jobless, laid-off, out of work, pink-slipped

Type of: people

Antonym: employed

Encyclopedia: Unemployed

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unelaborated
unembarrassed
unembellished
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unemotional
unemotional person
unemotionality
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unemployable
unemployed
unemployed people
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unemployment
unemployment benefit
unemployment compensation
unemployment line
unemployment rate
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unencumbered