HOW TO PRONOUNCE
unemployed
/ˌʌnɛmˈplɔɪd/
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What does unemployed mean?
adjective
- Having no job despite being able and willing to work.
- Having no use, not doing work
noun
- The unemployed people of a society or the world, taken collectively.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˌʌnɛmˈplɔɪd/
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More important, a host of unemployed citizens face the grim problem of existence, and an equally great number toil with little return.
And Jurgis would make the acquaintance of others of these unemployed men and find that they had all had the same experience.
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But those fortunate nests already have their overseer, the foundress, who, jealous of her rights, gives her unemployed neighbour a cold reception.
By eight o’clock a number of boys and unemployed men had already started for the common to see the “dead men from Mars.”
The unemployed nobility, who had long been ousted from their old functions, and who were consequently inclined to be censorious, followed their leadership.