funemployed

/ˌfʌnɪmˈplɔɪd/

funemployed adjective: in a state of enjoyable unemployment.

Adjective

funemployed (not comparable)

(neologism) In a state of enjoyable unemployment.
- Maybe you’re funemployed and you can go anytime?2009 May 15, Bryce Longton, “Not another travel deal site”, in BlackBook, archived from the original on 16 Jul 2016
- Buoyed by severance, savings, unemployment checks or their parents, the funemployed do not spend their days poring over job listings.2009 June 4, Kimi Yoshino, “For the ‘funemployed,’ unemployment is welcome”, in Los Angeles Times, archived from the original on 07 May 2016

Some took advantage of this freedom by becoming, as one respondent cleverly put it, “funemployed.”2016, Benjamin H. Snyder, The Disrupted Workplace […] , Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 144:
Instead of being employed and lamenting over the loss of employment, money, and opportunity, we're now expected to be “funemployed”!2022, Whitney Goodman, Toxic Positivity […] , Penguin, →ISBN, page 52:

Blend of fun + unemployed.

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What does funemployed mean?: Funemployed means in a state of enjoyable unemployment.
How do you use funemployed in a sentence?: Some took advantage of this freedom by becoming, as one respondent cleverly put it, “funemployed.”
What part of speech is funemployed?: Funemployed is an adjective.
How do you pronounce funemployed?: Funemployed is pronounced /ˌfʌnɪmˈplɔɪd/.

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