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unemployed definition

un·em·ployed (-plo̵id′)

adjective

  1. not employed; without work
  2. not being used; idle
unemployed Idioms

the unemployed

people who are out of work

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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