unemployed
About 6.76 uses per million words.
Meaning
- adjective Having no job despite being able and willing to work.
The government announced a new initiative to help the unemployed.
- adjective Having no use, not doing work
- noun The unemployed people of a society or the world, taken collectively.
Similar words
jobless idle fired laid-off at leisure discharged dismissed out of work pink-slipped unemployment
Often followed by
and in workers or people for persons men are
Word family
unemployeds
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