chômeur
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French chômeur. Coined by Colette Grinevald
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ʃəʊˈmɜː/
Noun edit
chômeur (plural chômeurs)
- (linguistics, Relational Grammar) An actant that has been 'demoted' to a less salient syntactic position, such as the agent of a passive clause.
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French edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
chômeur m (plural chômeurs, feminine chômeuse)
- an unemployed person
- Il est chômeur ― He is unemployed.
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Further reading edit
- “chômeur”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.