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adjective
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not currently in use: unemployed productive capacity.
3.
not productively used: unemployed capital.
noun
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(used with a plural verb
) people who do not have jobs (usually preceded by the): programs to help the unemployed.
) people who do not have jobs (usually preceded by the): programs to help the unemployed. :10
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Unemployed
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a fool or simpleton; ninny. |
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Word Origin & History
unemployed
1600, "at leisure, not occupied," from un- (1) "not" + pp. of employ. Meaning "temporarily out of work" is from 1667. The noun meaning "unemployed persons collectively" is from 1782; unemployment first recorded 1888.
EXPAND[Say the] voices of the unemployed
No man has hired us
With pocketed hands
And lowered faces
We stand about in open places
And shiver in unlit rooms
[T.S. Eliot, Choruses from the Rock]
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