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disemployment

disemployment noun: the state of being disemployed, or deprived of employment (as sometimes distinguished from unemployment).

Noun

disemployment (uncountable)

  1. The state of being disemployed, or deprived of employment (as sometimes distinguished from unemployment).
    • this glut of leisure and disemployment1651, Jer[emy] Taylor, The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living. […], 2nd edition, London: […] Francis Ashe […], →OCLC
    • So an AI-enabled future may have all sorts of economic dislocations — not just unemployment, but disemployment — the obsolescence of a lot of professions. But the marginal cost of goods and services will essentially go to zero, providing enough wealth that societies can provide a universal basic...2024 January 19, Eric Larsen, “Vinod Khosla — Silicon Valley legend and early investor in OpenAI — on the coming AI revolution in medicine”, in Advisory Board (Lessons from the C-suite)

Antonyms of disemployment

Origin of disemployment

From dis- + employment.

Questions about disemployment

What does disemployment mean?
Disemployment means the state of being disemployed, or deprived of employment (as sometimes distinguished from unemployment).
What part of speech is disemployment?
Disemployment is a noun.

Words near disemployment in the dictionary

  1. disemplanes
  2. disemplaning
  3. disemploy
  4. disemployed
  5. disemploying
  6. disemployment
  7. disemploys
  8. disempower
  9. disempowered
  10. disempowering
  11. disempoweringly

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