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unemployables

unemployables is the plural of unemployable.

Meaning of unemployable

Noun

unemployable (plural unemployables)

  1. A person who is not suited to employment.
    • No longer are stereotypical gay men the sole victims of police entrapment. No longer are unwashed unemployables the only ones who would consider biting a cop during the course of an arrest. The solons and jurists of yesterday may well become the convicts of tomorrow.1976 August 28, David P. Brill, “Talking Politics”, in Gay Community News, volume 4, number 9, page 11

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Questions about unemployables

What is unemployables the plural of?
Unemployables is the plural of unemployable.

Words near unemployables in the dictionary

  1. unempirically
  2. unemploy
  3. unemployability
  4. unemployable
  5. unemployableness
  6. unemployables
  7. unemployably
  8. unemployed
  9. unemployedness
  10. unemployeds
  11. unemployee

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