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malemployed

malemployed adjective: employed in a job for which one is overqualified or overeducated, usually a job that does not pay as much as one wants or expects.

Adjective

malemployed (not comparable)

  1. Employed in a job for which one is overqualified or overeducated, usually a job that does not pay as much as one wants or expects.
    • Mal-employed college grads earn half of what their degree-appropriately employed peers do, a difference that adds up to tens of thousands of dollars per year, and millions over a lifetime.2013 October 2, Rana Foroohar, “Forget Unemployment, Time to Worry About ‘Mal-Employment’”, in Time

Origin of malemployed

From mal- + employed.

Questions about malemployed

What does malemployed mean?
Malemployed means employed in a job for which one is overqualified or overeducated, usually a job that does not pay as much as one wants or expects.
What part of speech is malemployed?
Malemployed is an adjective.

Words near malemployed in the dictionary

  1. malelessness
  2. Malema
  3. malemiut
  4. malemiuts
  5. malemploy
  6. malemployed
  7. malemploying
  8. malemployment
  9. malemploys
  10. malemute
  11. malemutes

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