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unemployed meaning

EN[-ɔɪd]

    Definition of unemployed in English Dictionary

  • NounBFunemployPREun-
    1. Unemployed people.
      1. The unemployed are a growing portion of the population.
  • AdjectiveBFunemploy
    1. Having no job despite being able and willing to work.
      1. Having no use, not doing work.
        1. England's attacking impetus was limited to one shot from Lampard that was comfortably collected by keeper Iker Casillas, but for all Spain's domination of the ball his England counterpart Joe Hart was unemployed.
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      1. Used in the Middle of Sentence
        • How's the living with mum while being unemployed and filing a shitload of meritless lolsuits game going for you?
        • Tens of thousands of the unemployed scavenged the streets collecting cardboard, an enduring image that gave rise to the term “cartoneros.”
    • Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
      1. Adjectives
        • Uncomparable adjectives
        • Morphemes
          • Prefixes
            • Words by prefix
              • Words prefixed with un-
          • Nouns
            • Pluralia tantum
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          Source: Wiktionary

          Meaning of unemployed for the defined word.

          Grammatically, this word "unemployed" is an adjective, more specifically, an uncomparable adjective. It's also a morpheme, more specifically, a prefixe. It's also a noun, more specifically, a pluralia tantum.
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          Definiteness: Level 8
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