un|em|ployed

un|em|ployed
un|em|ployed «UHN ehm PLOYD», adjective, noun.
–adj.
1. not employed; not in use: »

an unemployed skill.

2. not having a job; having no work: »

an unemployed person.

3. earning no interest or dividends; not loaned or invested: »

unemployed capital.

–n. the unemployed,
people out of work: »

Some of the unemployed sought aid from the government. The employed and the unemployed, taken together, constitute the labour force (Leon E. Truesdell).


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