unemployed

1. 1
   adjective

   Having no job, even though you are able and want to work.

   Like a worker waiting at the door, ready to start but with no work to do.

   He has been unemployed since the factory closed last spring.

   Many young people in the town are unemployed right now.

   Similarjobless, workless

   Oppositeemployed, working

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2. 2
   nounplural

   All the people in a place who have no jobs, thought of as one group.

   The government promised new programs to help the unemployed find work.

   Charities across the city give meals to the unemployed during winter.

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3. 3
   adjective

   Not being used for anything and not doing any work.

   Our goalkeeper was unemployed for most of the game, because the other team never got near our goal.

   All that unemployed equipment just gathered dust in the shed.

   Similaridle, inactive, unused, dormant, unoccupied

   Oppositeemployed

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