'Unemployed' definitions:
Definition of 'unemployed'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Not engaged in a gainful occupation; "unemployed workers marched on the capital" [ant: employed]
noun
People who are involuntarily out of work (considered as a group); "the long-term unemployed need assistance" [syn: unemployed people, unemployed]
Definition of 'Unemployed'
From: GCIDE
- Unemployed \Un`em*ployed"\, a.
- 1. Not employed in manual or other labor; having no regular work. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Not invested or used; as, unemployed capital. [1913 Webster]
- 3. (Economics) actively seeking employment but unable to find a suitable job. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'unemployed'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- at a standstill,
- at anchor,
- at leisure,
- at liberty,
- at loose ends,
- available,
- beggar,
- bummer,
- cadger,
- coupon clippers,
- dead-still,
- disengaged,
- drone,
- extra,
- fallow,
- fired,
- fixed,
- free,
- freeloader,
- fresh,
- held back,
- held in reserve,
- held out,
- idle,
- idle rich,
- immobile,
- immotive,
- in abeyance,
- in hand,
- jobless,
- leisure,
- leisure class,
- leisured,
- let go,
- lounge lizard,
- lumpen,
- lumpen proletariat,
- mendicant,
- mint,
- moocher,
- motionless,
- moveless,
- new,
- nonworker,
- off,
- off duty,
- off work,
- original,
- otiose,
- out of commission,
- out of employ,
- out of harness,
- out of work,
- panhandler,
- parasite,
- pristine,
- put aside,
- put by,
- rentiers,
- reserve,
- riding at anchor,
- saved,
- spare,
- spiv,
- sponger,
- static,
- stationary,
- statuelike,
- still,
- stock-still,
- stored,
- suspended,
- the unemployable,
- the unemployed,
- to spare,
- unapplied,
- unbeaten,
- unconsumed,
- unemployable,
- unengaged,
- unexercised,
- unexpended,
- unhandled,
- unmoved,
- unmoving,
- unoccupied,
- unspent,
- untapped,
- untouched,
- untrodden,
- unused,
- unutilized,
- waived,
- workless