unemployed
IPA: ʌnɛmpɫˈɔɪd
adjective
- Having no job despite being able and willing to work.
- Having no use, not doing work
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Examples of "unemployed" in Sentences
- With 1-in-6 Americans out of work and a labor force growing at one percent per year, a large number of long-term unemployed is likely.
- He thinks the best way to help the long-term unemployed is to allow private citizens to invest in local companies that can create more jobs.
- My proposal of personal responsibility for the unemployed is absolutely Republican-compatible, and it once was compatible with Democratic thinking.
- Building on the current public system for the short term unemployed, a fully scaled, market-driven long term unemployment system would, at minimal cost to taxpayers, provide workers with a new tool to prepare for episodes of prolonged joblessness.
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