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  • 21unemployed people — noun people who are involuntarily out of work (considered as a group) the long term unemployed need assistance • Syn: ↑unemployed • Usage Domain: ↑plural, ↑plural form • Hypernyms: ↑people …

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  • 22unemployed — adjective Date: 15th century not employed: a. not being used b. not engaged in a gainful occupation c. not invested • unemployed noun …

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  • 23unemployed — Synonyms and related words: at a standstill, at anchor, at leisure, at liberty, at loose ends, available, beggar, bummer, cadger, coupon clippers, dead still, disengaged, drone, extra, fallow, fired, fixed, free, freeloader, fresh, held back,… …

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  • 24unemployed — adjective most of my former colleagues are still unemployed Syn: jobless, out of work, between jobs, unwaged, unoccupied, laid off, idle; on welfare; Brit. redundant …

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  • 25unemployed — /ʌnəmˈplɔɪd / (say unuhm ployd), / ɛm / (say em ) adjective 1. out of work, especially temporarily and involuntarily; without work or employment. 2. not employed; not in use; not kept busy or at work. 3. not in productive or profitable use. –noun …

  • 26unemployed — /ˌʌnɪm plɔɪd/ adjective not having any paid work ■ noun ♦ the unemployed the people without any jobs …

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  • 27unemployed — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. idle, jobless, out of work; loafing, at leisure, at liberty, free, available; looking [around]. See inactivity. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. out of work, laid off, at liberty, between jobs, in the… …

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  • 28unemployed — unemployment …

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  • 29unemployed — n. jobless; persons not employed adj. not employed, out of work, jobless; not currently being used …

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  • 30unemployed — adjective 1》 without a paid job but available to work. 2》 (of a thing) not in use …

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