1.
[syn: unemployed people, unemployed]
ADJECTIVE (1)
1. not engaged in a gainful occupation;
- Example: "unemployed workers marched on the capital"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Unemployed \Unemployed\
See employed.
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Unemployed \Un`em*ployed"\, a.
1. Not employed in manual or other labor; having no regular
work.
[1913 Webster]
2. Not invested or used; as, unemployed capital.
[1913 Webster]
3. (Economics) actively seeking employment but unable to find
a suitable job.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
unemployed
adj 1: not engaged in a gainful occupation; "unemployed workers
marched on the capital" [ant: employed]
n 1: people who are involuntarily out of work (considered as a
group); "the long-term unemployed need assistance" [syn:
unemployed people, unemployed]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
94 Moby Thesaurus words for "unemployed":
at a standstill, at anchor, at leisure, at liberty, at loose ends,
available, beggar, bummer, cadger, coupon clippers, dead-still,
disengaged, drone, extra, fallow, fired, fixed, free, freeloader,
fresh, held back, held in reserve, held out, idle, idle rich,
immobile, immotive, in abeyance, in hand, jobless, leisure,
leisure class, leisured, let go, lounge lizard, lumpen,
lumpen proletariat, mendicant, mint, moocher, motionless, moveless,
new, nonworker, off, off duty, off work, original, otiose,
out of commission, out of employ, out of harness, out of work,
panhandler, parasite, pristine, put aside, put by, rentiers,
reserve, riding at anchor, saved, spare, spiv, sponger, static,
stationary, statuelike, still, stock-still, stored, suspended,
the unemployable, the unemployed, to spare, unapplied, unbeaten,
unconsumed, unemployable, unengaged, unexercised, unexpended,
unhandled, unmoved, unmoving, unoccupied, unspent, untapped,
untouched, untrodden, unused, unutilized, waived, workless