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funemployment

funemployment noun: a period of unemployment spent pursuing recreational activities or hobbies.

Noun

funemployment (uncountable)

  1. A period of unemployment spent pursuing recreational activities or hobbies.
    • Aubrey Howell, who'd tweeted about funemployment shortly after being laid off as the manager of a Nashville tea shop in 2009, and was featured in a Los Angeles Times story soon afterward, told me half a year later that she initially saw the layoff as an opportunity to clear her head, refocus, and...2011, Don Peck, Pinched: How the Great Recession Has Narrowed Our Futures & What We Can Do About It, Crown Publishers, →ISBN, page 72

Origin of funemployment

Blend of fun + unemployment.

Questions about funemployment

What does funemployment mean?
Funemployment means a period of unemployment spent pursuing recreational activities or hobbies.
What part of speech is funemployment?
Funemployment is a noun.

Words near funemployment in the dictionary

  1. Fundy Bay
  2. funebral
  3. funebrial
  4. funebrious
  5. funemployed
  6. funemployment
  7. Funen
  8. funeral
  9. funeral biscuit
  10. funeral biscuits
  11. funeral celebrant

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