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un⋅em⋅ployed

  [uhn-em-ploid]
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–adjective
1. not employed; without a job; out of work: an unemployed secretary.
2. not currently in use: unemployed productive capacity.
3. not productively used: unemployed capital.
–noun
4. (used with a plural verb) people who do not have jobs (usually prec. by the): programs to help the unemployed.
Origin:
1590–1600; un- 1 + employ + -ed 2

Synonyms:
1. unoccupied, idle, at liberty, jobless.
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un·em·ployed   (ŭn'ěm-ploid', -ĭm-)   
adj.  

  1. Out of work, especially involuntarily; jobless.

  2. Not being used; idle.

n.   (used with a pl. verb)
People who are involuntarily out of work considered as a group. Used with the.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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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.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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