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underemployed
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
underemployed
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Although he might well spend his days in one place, obsessively devoted to music-making, he would always be morally underemployed.
▪ Its wealth was largely non-industrial and it contained an enormous pool of underemployed and unemployed people.
▪ This may mean that some workers are unemployed or that all workers are underemployed, or a combination of both.
▪ Those economies which have successfully switched underemployed agricultural labour into manufacturing and service activities have generally achieved significant real economic growth rates.
Wiktionary
underemployed

a. employed in a job for which one is overqualified; or employed in a job that does not pay as much as one wants or expects.

WordNet
underemployed

adj. employed only part-time when one needs full-time employment or not making full use of your skills; "migrants are likely to be poor and underemployed"; "able people are kept underemployed"

Wikipedia
Underemployed

Underemployed may refer to:

  • A person subject to underemployment.
  • Underemployed (TV series), a comedy-drama television series that airs on MTV.
Underemployed (TV series)

Underemployed is an American comedy-drama television series on MTV. The series premiered on October 16, 2012.

Usage examples of "underemployed".

There are a good many supernumeraries who are underemployed, if they are employed at all.