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unemployed

AdjektivSubstantivhäufig in Dialogen

  • //ˌʌnɪmˈplɔɪd//

Having no job despite being able and willing to work.

Adjektiv

  1. 1

    Having no job despite being able and willing to work.

    The government announced a new initiative to help the unemployed.

    The number of unemployed keeps rising steadily.

    Several special types of unemployed workers are described. These include nonmodal workers, threshold workers, "the unemployables", and the physically handicapped.

  2. 2

    Having no use, not doing work

    England's attacking impetus was limited to one shot from Lampard that was comfortably collected by keeper Iker Casillas, but for all Spain's domination of the ball his England counterpart Joe Hart was unemployed.

Herkunft

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- English employed English unemployed From un- + employed.

Substantiv

  1. 1

    The unemployed people of a society or the world, taken collectively.

Die NachbarseitenDie alphabetische Reihenfolge folgt den Regeln der Sprache, nicht den Bytewerten: Ein Akzent entscheidet nur zwischen zwei sonst gleichen Wörtern, und das Spanische führt Ñ als eigenen Buchstaben.

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