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单词 unemployed
释义
unemployed
adjective
uk
/ˌʌn.ɪmˈplɔɪd/us
/ˌʌn.ɪmˈplɔɪd/
B1
not having ajobthatprovidesmoney:
失业的；待业的
He's been unemployed for over ayear.他失业一年多了。
More examples
  • Being unemployedentitlesyou tofreemedicaltreatment.
  • With Dave unemployed, we haven't got muchmoneycoming in at themoment.
  • Hisfinancialproblemsescalatedafter hebecameunemployed.
  • Thegunmanin Wednesday'sattackhas beenidentifiedas Lee Giggs, an unemployedtruckdriver.
  • Thegovernmentpublishesfiguresevery sixmonthsshowinghow manypeopleare unemployed.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Unemployment
  • anti-unemployment
  • be between jobs/marriages/boyfriends, girlfriends, etc.idiom
  • between
  • disability living allowance
  • displaced
  • frictional unemployment
  • idleness
  • job
  • job centre
  • jobless
  • JSA
  • NEET
  • pip
  • precarity
  • sign
  • sign on
  • unwaged
  • vagabond
  • welfare
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Types of employment
unemployed
noun[plural]
uk
/ˌʌn.ɪmˈplɔɪd/us
/ˌʌn.ɪmˈplɔɪd/
C1
peoplewho do not have ajobthatprovidesmoney:
失业人员；待业人员
There are now over four million unemployed in thiscountry.目前该国有400多万失业人口。
Ourdepartmentprovidesservicesfortheunemployed.我们的部门为失业人员提供服务。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Unemployment
  • anti-unemployment
  • be between jobs/marriages/boyfriends, girlfriends, etc.idiom
  • between
  • disability living allowance
  • displaced
  • frictional unemployment
  • idleness
  • job
  • job centre
  • jobless
  • JSA
  • NEET
  • pip
  • precarity
  • sign
  • sign on
  • unwaged
  • vagabond
  • welfare
See more results »

You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics:

Types of employment
(Definition ofunemployedfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

unemployed| American Dictionary

unemployed
adjective[not gradable]
us
/ˌʌn·ɪmˈplɔɪd/
not having ajobthatprovidesmoney:
an unemployedactor

unemployed

plural nounus
/ˌʌn·ɪmˈplɔɪd/
At thattime, the unemployednumberedover two millionpeople.
(Definition ofunemployedfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

unemployed| Business English

unemployed
adjective
ECONOMICS,HR
uk
/ˌʌnɪmˈplɔɪd/us
someone who is unemployed does not have ajob:
Only 2.3% of thesurveysamplewere unemployed andseekingwork.
Unemploymentfiguresincludeonly those who areofficiallyregisteredas unemployed.
Theportionof thejoblesswho had been unemployed for more than sixmonthswas 21.6% inJune, not muchchangedfromJunelastyear.
unemployed people/workersWe should be focussing moreeffortson labour-marketissuessuch as getting unemployedpeopleback towork.
the unemployed
noun[plural]
ECONOMICS,HR
uk
us
peoplewho do not havejobs,consideredas agroup:
Governmentprogramsfor theunemployedwillplacenewemphasisontraining,education, andrelocationassistance.
According toLaborDepartmentstatistics,nearlyahalfmillionpeoplejoinedtheranksof theunemployedinNovember.
See also
the long-term unemployed
(Definition ofunemployedfrom theCambridge Business English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofunemployed

unemployed
In my area, we have something like 20,000unemployed in spite of the activity in shipping and shipbuilding and arms.
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If we have to raise the unemployed's standards, it will be difficult to get them down later on.
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The quality of life in the cities declined under the weight of theunemployedand underprivileged.
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How much more likely wereunemployedpersons to be deprived, compared to those who were employed?
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By the time the economic bubble burst in 1932, those committed to paying high, decontrolled rents, found themselves eitherunemployedor compelled to accept wage-cuts.
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Table 2 shows the level of support for the various requirements as they applied to different categories ofunemployedpeople.
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The authors find, for example, no clear evidence of incapacity benefit being used as a more comfortable haven by theunemployed.
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First, however, we need to explain whyunemployedhouseholds conduct so much less self-help activity than employed households.
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Theunemployedcriticised the sufficiency of both benefits; differences between theunemployedand employed were similar in 1992 and 1996.
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Recruitment ofunemployedand often violent youth who were more interested in looting than in defending citizens only added to the country's troubles.
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Most of these poor,unemployed, lowcaste workers could hardly imagine more difficult circumstances than they were presently in.
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Nonetheless, the interactive variable of presidential ideology and theunemployedrate quarterly change is not significant.
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Theunemployedwished for more financing for unemployment benefits and social assistance and single parents claimed more financing of child benefits and family benefits.
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Theunemployedclaim more tax-money on social assistance and this claim became slightly stronger when moving towards the end of the period.
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The prevalence of mental disorders was higher among those who areunemployedthan employed, 73 and 47%, respectively.
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