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unemploys

unemploys is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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

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What is unemploys the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Unemploys is the third-person singular simple present indicative of unemploy.

Words near unemploys in the dictionary

  1. unemployment rate
  2. unemployment rates
  3. unemployment trap
  4. unemployment traps
  5. unemployments
  6. unemploys
  7. unempoisoned
  8. unempowered
  9. unempowering
  10. unemptiable
  11. unemptied

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