Unemployed
[ʌnɪm'plɒɪd;-em-] or [,ʌnɪm'plɔɪd]
Definition
(adj.) not engaged in a gainful occupation; 'unemployed workers marched on the capital' .
Edited by Cathryn--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Not employed in manual or other labor; having no regular work.
(a.) Not invested or used; as, unemployed capital.
Edited by Edward
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Unoccupied, doing nothing, out of employment.[2]. Disused.
Typed by Elinor
Definition
adj. out of work: not put to use or profit.—n. Unemploy′ment.
Inputed by Jesse
Examples
- When the latter was unemployed, he sometimes walked with us to show us the boats and ships, and once or twice he took us for a row. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- There was no help then; so the unemployed underwent their destiny--ate the bread and drank the waters of affliction. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Such a merchant would have no occasion to keep any part of his stock by him unemployed, and in ready money, for answering occasional demands. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Very well; but she complains of being unemployed. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The merchant in Edinburgh, on the other hand, keeps no money unemployed for answering such occasional demands. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- By being obliged to keep so great a sum unemployed, he must sell in a year five hundred pounds worth less goods than he might otherwise have done. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- When I am quite determined as to the time, I am not at all afraid of being long unemployed. Jane Austen. Emma.
Typist: Lottie