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Unemployed   /ˌənɛmplˈɔɪd/   Listen
adjective
Unemployed  adj.  
1.
Not employed in manual or other labor; having no regular work.
2.
Not invested or used; as, unemployed capital.
3.
(Economics) Actively seeking employment but unable to find a suitable job.


Unemployed  adj.  See employed.





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"Unemployed" Quotes from Famous Books



... chap," she afterwards observed. "It's a pity he ain't got somethink to do to keep him out of mischief. Is he a unemployed? He don't look like one of these Johnnies that has nothink to do but hang around a street ...
— Some Everyday Folk and Dawn • Miles Franklin
... dangers that threatened society? What had become of the labor troubles, the schemes of the anarchists, the menace of the unemployed, the risk of a plutocracy, and all the evils that darkened the sky of that former day? How far away, how trivial these things seemed, now that they had passed, and men were learning to ...
— Daybreak: A Romance of an Old World • James Cowan
... as this fact may be to our clamorous vanity, only so many agents and instruments, blind, and scuffling vainly in our blindness, in the perpetual law of progress. As a soul never dies, so it is never useless or unemployed. The Deity is no more profligate in the matter of souls than he is in that of seeds. They pass, by periodical transitions, from body to body; perhaps from sphere to sphere; and as the performance of their trusts have been praiseworthy ...
— Charlemont • W. Gilmore Simms
... week elapsed, before there was a breeze that blew in their favour; but during this interval, they had not been altogether unemployed. Still uncertain of the length of time they might be detained in the valley, they had passed almost every hour of the daylight in increasing their stock of provisions—so as not to encroach upon the cured venison of the ibex, of which a considerable quantity ...
— The Cliff Climbers - A Sequel to "The Plant Hunters" • Captain Mayne Reid
... manifold tasks, of that general and constant superintendence, she found time to make pretty things, to take from her work-basket some piece of knitting or embroidery, which clung to her as steadfastly as young Elise to her history of France. Even when she was talking, her fingers were never unemployed ...
— The Nabob, Volume 1 (of 2) • Alphonse Daudet


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