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Word definitions for unemployed in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Unemployed \Un`em*ployed"\, a. Not employed in manual or other labor; having no regular work. Not invested or used; as, unemployed capital. (Economics) actively seeking employment but unable to find a suitable job.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1600, "at leisure, not occupied," from un- (1) "not" + past participle of employ (v.). Meaning "temporarily out of work" is from 1660s. The noun meaning "unemployed persons collectively" is from 1782.\n\nNo man has hired us \n With pocketed hands \n And ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 Having no job despite being able and willing to work. 2 Having no use, not doing work n. Unemployed people.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
I. adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES be registered (as) unemployed/disabled etc British English (= be on an official list of a particular group ) the long-term unemployed (= people who have not had a job for a long time ) COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. not engaged in a gainful occupation; "unemployed workers marched on the capital" [ant: employed ]
Usage examples of unemployed.
World War broke down many of the inhibitions of violence and bloodshed that had been built up during the progressive years of the nineteenth century and an accumulating number of intelligent, restless unemployed men, in a new world of motor-cars, telephones, plate-glass shop windows, unbarred country houses and trustful social habits, found themselves faced with illegal opportunities far more attractive than any legal behaviour-system now afforded them.
James Bolivar diGriz and I was born a little over seventeen years ago in this very city in the Mother Machree Maternity Hospital for Unemployed Porcuswineherders.
Vickers reminded himself that, as far as all the world, with sole exception of Victoria Morgenstern was concerned, he was also terminally unemployed.
The unemployed former paralegal living with his parents, or the former All-Star shortstop and current manager who no doubt owned at least one home of his own?
Father in the press for being too soft on the unemployed, on Relief, and on pinkos generally.
The biggest problem was to keep the propertyless people, who were unemployed and hungry in the crisis following the French war, under control.
Sunday afternoon in the idleness of that unemployed day, Simson with his stick penetrated an old window which had been entirely blocked up with fallen soil.
Twenties, which preceded the collapse of the Thirties, when the whole world was full of unconsumed goods and unemployed people.
All the cities built poorhouses in the 1730s, not just for old people, widows, crippled, and orphans, but for unemployed, war veterans, new immigrants.
Tn the East labor and the unemployed were in a bitter and violent temper.
By October of that year, 200,000 were unemployed, and thousands of recent immigrants crowded into the eastern ports, hoping to work their way back to Europe.
There were parades of the unemployed, demanding bread and work, looting shops.
An incipient riot by 500 unemployed men turned out of the city lodging house for lack of funds was quelled by police reserves in Cadillac Square tonight.
A two-day siege of the County-City Building, occupied by an army of about 5,000 unemployed, was ended early tonight, deputy sheriffs and police evicting the demonstrators after nearly two hours of efforts.
They were miners from West Virginia, sheet metal workers from Columbus, Georgia, and unemployed Polish veterans from Chicago.