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unemploying

unemploying is the present participle and gerund of unemploy.

Meaning of unemploy

Verb

unemploy (third-person singular simple present unemploys, present participle unemploying, simple past and past participle unemployed)

  1. (transitive) To cause someone to become unemployed.
    • In addition, new technologies are adopted which are less labour-using, thus unemploying workers. Over the postwar years, factors of this sort have contributed to a gradual upward drift in unemployment rates, even during expansions.1978, Fred Caloren, Michel Chossudovsky, Paul Gingrich, Is the Canadian Economy Closing Down?, Black Rose Books Ltd., →ISBN, page 88

Questions about unemploying

What is unemploying the present participle and gerund of?
Unemploying is the present participle and gerund of unemploy.

Words near unemploying in the dictionary

  1. unemployed
  2. unemployedness
  3. unemployeds
  4. unemployee
  5. unemployees
  6. unemploying
  7. unemployment
  8. unemployment benefit
  9. unemployment benefits
  10. unemployment insurance
  11. unemployment insurances

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