unemployed
Adjective
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Not engaged in a gainful occupation (synset 300867880)
"unemployed workers marched on the capital"also: idle - not in action or at worksimilar to:
- discharged, dismissed, fired, laid-off, pink-slipped - having lost your job
- idle, jobless, out of work - not having a job
Noun
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People who are involuntarily out of work (considered as a group) (synset 108494318)
"the long-term unemployed need assistance"domain usage: plural, plural form - the form of a word that is used to denote more than oneis a type of: people - (plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectivelysame as: unemployed people
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