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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
unemployed
I.adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be registered (as) unemployed/disabled etcBritish 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
■ ADVERB
currently
▪ How can he explain that when 71,000 people in the city of Liverpool alone are currently unemployed?
▪ That does not surprise me, given that 20 percent. of the male population in Newham are currently unemployed.
▪ Only 5.6% of women are currently unemployed - a third below the peak in 1986.
now
▪ And as you are now unemployed, I see no reason why you shouldn't search for them in a freelance capacity.
▪ James Andrews, a former Lloyds insurance broker, now unemployed, was ill for 18 months.
▪ He had lost his job as manager as a result of his arrest and was now unemployed.
▪ Mr Scaife decided that Mr Saunders, now unemployed, had deliberately deprived himself of cash resources.
▪ In Tayside, 533 young people are now unemployed; in Central region, 500 are unemployed.
▪ Seven percent of the working population ... more than nine thousand people are now unemployed.
■ NOUN
claimant
▪ That compares with 13,221 unemployed claimants and 241 unfilled vacancies in January 1987.
▪ Since January 1986 the number of unemployed claimants in the Aberdare travel to work area has fallen by 27 percent.
▪ Basic provision of shelter, heat and light often consume more than half the total income of unemployed claimants.
▪ Mr. Howard On the seasonally adjusted basis there were 2,546,000 unemployed claimants in December 1991.
man
▪ For example in 1983, only 30% of unemployed men had working wives, compared with 58% of employed household heads.
▪ Between 1979 and 1987 the proportion of unemployed men who received supplementary benefit alone increased from 43 percent to 61.4 percent.
▪ Late one evening, a party of thirteen unemployed men from Newport Pagnell were admitted as casuals.
▪ It was set up by about thirty young unemployed men in January 1965.
▪ Nearly all the unemployed men aged 60-64 in our study mentioned the bias towards younger people in recruitment.
people
▪ It currently offers on an annual basis up to 600,000 unemployed people an average of six months training and work experience.
▪ Since the Great Leap Forward of the 1950s, millions of young and unemployed people have been sent to the countryside.
▪ The first two Conservative governments presided over an economy which produced ever increasing numbers of unemployed people.
▪ A pilot scheme should give unemployed people aged over 55 £500 for an educational or training programme of their choice.
▪ Is this not a strange time to close offices which provide assistance for so many unemployed people?
▪ Self help: A group of unemployed people in Middlesbrough will be building their own homes this year.
▪ We carefully considered - I explained how we did so - how best to help unemployed people back to work.
▪ Lamont's announcement of help for 100,000 unemployed people also raised half a cheer at most.
person
▪ This move alone will not ensure that the working partner of an unemployed person is not penalized for working.
▪ Body Shop staff adopt a young unemployed person on a one-to-one basis, helping with job applications, for example.
▪ So the average unemployed person is likely to be less healthy than the average employee.
worker
▪ The scheme was intended to provide financial help to unemployed workers in depressed areas who were prepared to move to other areas.
▪ It is a movement that started outside institutional labor: unemployed workers, community groups, church groups.
▪ Higher proportions of older unemployed workers experience long unemployment durations now than in the late 1970's.
▪ It still seems like a recession to the unemployed workers, now numbering 5 percent of the workforce.
▪ There are two main reasons why these unemployed workers do not find jobs immediately.
▪ Certainly, most unemployed workers legitimately can not find work at the wages they are accustomed to.
▪ Although this is highly plausible there are few studies of the skills possessed by older unemployed workers.
▪ It would be equally ridiculous to think of taxing only unemployed workers to finance the unemployment compensation payments which they receive.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ an unemployed steel worker
▪ Fifty per cent of the men in this town are unemployed.
▪ The accused man is an unemployed labourer from South London.
▪ The government is not doing enough to help the unemployed.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ An estimated 40 percent of the population is unemployed.
▪ Body Shop staff adopt a young unemployed person on a one-to-one basis, helping with job applications, for example.
▪ Finally, there was Miss Marita Calagarri, who described herself as an unemployed ship's cook.
▪ How can he explain that when 71,000 people in the city of Liverpool alone are currently unemployed?
▪ My father, who was a well-qualified master mariner, was unemployed for four years in the 1930s.
▪ They were glad to be working, especially in these years of drought when so many people were unemployed.
II.noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But then, labor has always had a funny relationship with the unemployed.
▪ But there is no evidence that the unemployed or the poor are being pushed to crime by the deteriorating economic conditions.
▪ But with 3.8 million people unemployed and violence against foreigners on the rise, immigration remains a politically charged issue here.
▪ Easy payment schemes are often possible and for the unemployed or those in receipt of benefits colleges often waive tuition fees.
▪ Most courses cost around the L100 mark but would be free to the unemployed or those in receipt of certain government benefits.
▪ These were the dummy variables representing the unemployed and the retired.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Unemployed

Unemployed \Un`em*ployed"\, a.

  1. Not employed in manual or other labor; having no regular work.

  2. Not invested or used; as, unemployed capital.

  3. (Economics) actively seeking employment but unable to find a suitable job.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
unemployed

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 lowered faces \n
We stand about in open places \n
And shiver in unlit rooms ... \n

\n[T.S. Eliot, "Choruses from the Rock"] \n\n\n

Wiktionary
unemployed

a. 1 Having no job despite being able and willing to work. 2 Having no use, not doing work n. Unemployed people.

WordNet
unemployed

adj. not engaged in a gainful occupation; "unemployed workers marched on the capital" [ant: employed]

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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.