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• The organization provides training and assistance to help the unemployed get back on their feet.From the entry on one's feet
• More people were simply scored off the list of unemployed than found employment through employment bureaux.From the entry score off
• Landowners received royalties from the phosphate earnings, and many Nauruans were unemployed by choice.2024, Nauru Britannica. From the entry Nauruan
• I mean, maybe their goal is to make unemployed the people who write emails.2023 March 1, Adrian Chen, quoting Malcolm Harris, “Malcolm Harris on Palo Alto, Political Awakenings, and Being Replaced by Robots”, in…. From the entry wordcel
• We don’t want unemployed workers to find the postpandemic economy has passed them by.2021 June 8, Glenn Hubbard, “How to Keep the Economy Booming — And Meet the Demand for Workers”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry postpandemic
• This “useless class” will not merely be unemployed — it will be unemployable.2017 February 24, Yuval Noah Harari, “The rise of the useless class”, in TED, archived from the original on 15 Apr 2022. From the entry useless class
• I’m unemployed!” and a few moments later, a security guard escorted the woman off the floor.2014 January 16, Victoria Bekiempis, “Atlantic City's Last 'Low-Roller' Casino Busts”, in Newsweek, retrieved 10 Jun 2015. From the entry pit boss
• Over all, movers were more likely than nonmovers to be unemployed, renters, poor and black.2009 April 23, Sam Roberts, “As Housing Market Dips, More in U.S. Are Staying Put”, in New York Times. From the entry nonmover
• An unemployed 'lurkman' Jim Sharrock, commented about his call-up: 'I lost over relief work.2006, David J. Potts, The Myth of the Great Depression, page 220. From the entry lurkman
• The newly unemployed stood in breadlines and slept on park benches under Hoover blankets made of newspaper.2005, Rosemarie Ostler, Dewdroppers, Waldos, and Slackers: A Decade-by-Decade Guide to the Vanishing Vocabulary of the Twentieth Century…. From the entry Hoover blanket
• Imagine having an unwanted baby while unemployed or stretched to the max with bills.2005 December 14, John van Gurp, “Vasectomy”, in hfx.general (Usenet). From the entry snippy snip
• Others (like Lewis, 16, unemployed) expressed equally strong negative views about the prospect of having children.2005 August 1, R. MacDonald, J. Marsh, Disconnected Youth?: Growing up in Britain’s Poor in Neighbourhoods, Springer, →ISBN, page 130. From the entry devoed
• He had a lot of practice shaking hands with the unemployed.1993, Seattle Sal, Grunge Jokes, S.P. Books, page 43. From the entry shake hands with the unemployed
• A millionaire may enjoy breakfasting off orange juice and Ryvita biscuits; an unemployed man doesn't.1937, George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier. From the entry Ryvita
• The plot revolves around an aimless and unemployed young man, M, whose sole ambition is to livestream his online games.2024 June 23, Sui-Lee Wee, “Why Southeast Asia Is Crying Over This Movie”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 23…. From the entry filial
• They were unemployed or underemployed and unable to afford travel, or to make large purchases, such as homes and cars.2022, Amy Webb, Andrew Hessel, The Genesis Machine: Our Quest to Rewrite Life in the Age of Synthetic Biology, New York, N.Y.…. From the entry Generation Beta
• We climbed up into the cove hardwood along a CCC path laid by unemployed boys not much older than Robin.2021, Richard Powers, Bewilderment, Hutchinson Heinemann, page 17. From the entry CCC
• Ciudadanos is keen on fighting monopolies and on vigorous Scandinavian-style labour reforms to help the unemployed retrain and find jobs.2018 February 10, “Spain’s centrist Ciudadanos are on the march”, in The Economist, London: Economist Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from…. From the entry monopoly
• Tens of thousands of the unemployed scavenged the streets collecting cardboard, an enduring image that gave rise to the term “cartoneros.”2015 June 25, James B. Stewart, “If Greece Defaults, Imagine Argentina, but Much Worse”, in New York Times. From the entry cartonero
• Of these an average of 8.5 percent were unemployed nationwide, and 8.7 percent were unemployed in New York.2001, Holger Henke, The West Indian Americans, Greenwood Press, →ISBN, pages 46–47. From the entry Trinidad and Tobagonian
• The scene is unemployed models and European hepsters.1996 May 5, Charlie Leduff, “My Journey Among the Blind”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry hepster
• Both men and women with higher qualifications were twice as less likely to be unemployed than their less qualified counterparts.1995, Louise Corti, Heather Laurie, Shirley Dex, Highly Qualified Women, Great Britain. Dept. of Employment, page 18. From the entry twice
• And without my work what am I but an unemployed scrunt on the meat market of the streets?1987, David Rabe, Hurlyburly: A Play, publ. Samuel French, Inc., →ISBN, page 112. From the entry scrunt
• There were no jobs for the unemployed, however.1984, Michiel Horn, The Great Depression of the 1930s in Canada (Canadian Historical Booklet no. 39), Canadian Historical Association, p 10. From the entry pogey
• WENDY WHITFIELD lives in Nottingham and is unemployed.1984 August, “Biographical Notes”, in Different Drums: A Second Trade Union Annual, Lancashire Association of Trades Councils, →ISBN, page…. From the entry Jill of all trades, mistress of none
• There must be a real drive in the trade union movement and the Labour movement to recruit Yoppers and the unemployed.1981, Report of the Annual Conference of the Labour Party, page 72. From the entry yopper
• Newly proletarianized workers were available to be exploited, while 'Lazarus layers' of the unemployed kept down wages, making production more profitable.1972, Ralph Miliband, John Saville, The Socialist Register, page 188. From the entry Lazarus layer
• There were anti-Semitic riots at several of the High Schools and manifestations among the unemployed graduates emerging from those institutions.1956, Carlile Aylmer Macartney, October Fifteenth: A History of Modern Hungary, 1929–1945, volume 1, page 134. From the entry manifestation
• I'm a thing which every decent middle-class person hates, a problem, like the unemployed, you know, or the ex-soldier.1923, Warwick Deeping, The Secret Sanctuary, e-artnow, published 2021. From the entry pater
• Now that you're certifiably — albeit temporarily — unemployed, you can explore places you've never before had the time, or the inclination, to explore.2008, Nicholas J. Nigro, No Job? No Prob!. From the entry certifiably
• Women also produced ‘little things’ to be sold door to door by their unemployed husbands, such as ornate covers for milkjugs, and doilies and hankies.2006, David Potts, The Myth of the Great Depression, Melbourne, Vic.: Scribe, →ISBN, page 99. From the entry milkjug
• At thirty, unaccomplished, unemployed, and incompletely focused, he visited the greatly accomplished English writers — Landor, Coleridge, Carlyle, Wordsworth — and tenderly cherished his disappointment.1989, Robert Weisbuch, Atlantic Double-Cross, page 3. From the entry unaccomplished
• As one of Groucho Marx's writers told it: an unemployed actor was interrupted at breakfast by his wife carrying a Dagwood sandwich of unpaid bills.1956 February 27, “Medicine: Don't-Give-a-Damn Pills”, in Time, retrieved 19 Apr 2014. From the entry dagwood sandwich
• Factories enjoying overbursts of good times were in evidence and no one had to pity the unemployed, because of the absence of idle people.1917, American Lumberman 1917-10-20: Issue 2214, Vance Publishing Corporation, page 50. From the entry overburst
• The traditional ethic of the fair go was resurrected, the light on the hill reignited, and the government promised that those currently unemployed would not be left to stagnate.2002, Francis Gordon Clarke, The History of Australia, page 186. From the entry fair go
• Don't you think that's the way to persuade more companies to come to this region and get more jobs—because I want them—for the people who are unemployed?1985, Margaret Thatcher, remarks to Tyne Tees TV (11 September 1985)…. From the entry moaning Minnie

Meaning of unemployed

1. adjective Having no job despite being able and willing to work.
2. adjective Having no use, not doing work.
3. noun The unemployed people of a society or the world, taken collectively.

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How do you use unemployed in a sentence?

Unemployed is used as an adjective and noun. For example: “The government announced a new initiative to help the unemployed.”

What is a short sentence with unemployed?

“The number of unemployed keeps rising steadily.”

What does unemployed mean?

Unemployed means having no job despite being able and willing to work.