unemployed
pronunciation
How to pronounce unemployed in British English:
UK [ˌʌnɪmˈplɔɪd]
How to pronounce unemployed in American English:
US [ˌʌnɪmˈplɔɪd]
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- Adjective:
- not engaged in a gainful occupation
Word Origin
- unemployed (adj.)
- 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. No man has hired us With pocketed hands And lowered faces We stand about in open places And shiver in unlit rooms ... [T.S. Eliot, "Choruses from the Rock"]
Example
- 1. It doesn 't even count lots of unemployed people .
- 2. So the unemployment rate fell because more of the unemployed became employed .
- 3. A shockingly large proportion of egypt 's unemployed young people are graduates .
- 4. More unemployed people found jobs in march .
- 5. Many unemployed bankers think so .