# unemployed

Pronunciation: US say "un-im-PLOYD" /ˌʌnɪmˈplɔɪd/; UK

## Adjective

1. Without a paid job, despite being able and willing to work.
   - Simple: Having no job, even though you are able and want to work.
   - _She stayed unemployed for months after her department was dissolved._
   - _Workers laid off by the mill remained unemployed throughout the recession._
3. Having no use and not being put to any work; sitting idle.
   - Simple: Not being used for anything and not doing any work.
   - _With play stuck in the opposite half all afternoon, the visiting keeper was effectively unemployed._
   - _The factory's unemployed machinery was eventually sold for scrap._

## Noun

2. The people of a society who have no jobs, considered together as a single group.
   - Simple: All the people in a place who have no jobs, thought of as one group.
   - _New training centers were opened to support the unemployed in former mining regions._
   - _Rising prices hit the unemployed harder than any other part of the population._

## Origin

Formed from the prefix un- ("not") added to employed.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/unemployed (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).