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unemployed

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un·em·ployed  (nm-ploid, -m-)
adj.
1. Out of work, especially involuntarily; jobless.
2. Not being used; idle.
n. (used with a pl. verb)
People who are involuntarily out of work considered as a group. Used with the.

unemployed
Adjective
1. without paid employment; out of work
2. not being used; idle
Noun, pl
people who are out of work: the long-term unemployed
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Noun1.unemployed - people who are involuntarily out of work (considered as a group); "the long-term unemployed need assistance"
plural, plural form - the form of a word that is used to denote more than one
people - (plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively; "old people"; "there were at least 200 people in the audience"
Adj.1.unemployedunemployed - not engaged in a gainful occupation; "unemployed workers marched on the capital"
idle - not in action or at work; "an idle laborer"; "idle drifters"; "the idle rich"; "an idle mind"
employed - having your services engaged for; or having a job especially one that pays wages or a salary; "most of our graduates are employed"

unemployed
adjective out of work, redundant, laid off, jobless, idle, on the dole Brit. (informal) out of a job, workless, resting (of an actor) << OPPOSITE working
Translations
Spanish unemployed [ʌnɪmˈplɔɪd] adjparado, sin trabajo
n the unemployed → los parados

French unemployed [ʌnɪmˈplɔɪd] adjsans travail, au chômage
n the unemployed → les chômeurs mpl

German unemployed [ʌnɪmˈplɔɪd] adjarbeitslos
npl the unemployed → die Arbeitslosen pl

Italian unemployed [ʌnɪmˈplɔɪd] adjdisoccupato/a
npl the unemployed → i disoccupati

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No doubt in that perfect world there had been no unemployed problem, no social question left unsolved.
Depend upon it that whatever unemployed sum may remain, when I make up my accounts in the spring, I would even rather lay it uselessly by than dispose of it in a manner so painful to you.
By eight o'clock a number of boys and unemployed men had already started for the common to see the "dead men from Mars.
 
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