Unemployed

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Unemployed \Unemployed\
     See {employed}.

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Unemployed \Un`em*ployed"\, a.


     1. Not employed in manual or other labor; having no regular
        work.
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     2. Not invested or used; as, unemployed capital.
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     3. (Economics) actively seeking employment but unable to find
        a suitable job.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  unemployed
       adj : not engaged in a gainful occupation; "unemployed workers
             marched on the capital" [ant: {employed}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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