unemployed (adj.)

  1. not engaged in a gainful occupation; unemployed workers marched on the capital'

    unemployed (n.)

  1. people who are involuntarily out of work (considered as a group); the long-term unemployed need assistance

    [ Syn: unemployed people ]

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