not employed, out of work, jobless; not currently being used
jobless; persons not employed
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Unemployed Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries
(a.)
Not invested or used; as, unemployed capital.
Not invested or used; as, unemployed capital.
(a.)
Not employed in manual or other labor; having no regular work.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter. AboutNot employed in manual or other labor; having no regular work.
unemployed
\un`em*ployed"\ (?), a.
1. not employed in manual or other labor; having no regular work.
2. not invested or used; as, unemployed capital.
unemployed
adj : not engaged in a gainful occupation; "unemployed workers marched on the capital" [ant: employed]
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unemployed person
Adjective
1. not engaged in a gainful occupation; "unemployed workers marched on the capital"
(antonym) employed
(similar) at leisure(p)
(see-also) idle
Unemployed Definition from Business & Finance Dictionaries & Glossaries
Any person, according to the EU definition, aged 15 to 74 who is (i) without work during the reference week, (ii) currently available for work and (iii) actively seeking work.
Copyright © 2006, European Central Bank, Frankfurt am Main, Germany. This information may be obtained free of charge through the ECB's website.Unemployed Definition from Science & Technology Dictionaries & Glossaries
Persons 16 years and over who had no employment during the reference week, were available for work, except for temporary illness, and had made specific efforts to find employment sometime during the 4-week period ending with the reference week. Persons who were waiting to be recalled to a job from which they had been laid off need not have been looking for work to be classified as unemployed.
© U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsUnemployed Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries
Unemployment (or ), as defined by the International Labour Organization, occurs when people are without jobs and they have actively sought work within the past four weeks. The unemployment rate is a measure of the prevalence of unemployment and it is calculated as a percentage by dividing the number of unemployed individuals by all individuals currently in the labor force. In a 2011 news story, BusinessWeek reported, "More than 200 million people globally are out of work, a record high, as almost two-thirds of advanced economies and half of developing countries are experiencing a slowdown in employment growth".
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