Etymology
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un- + employed
Pronunciation
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Adjective
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unemployed (not comparable)
- Having no job despite being able and willing to work.
The government announced a new initiative to help the unemployed.
- Having no use, not doing work
2011 November 12, “International friendly: England 1-0 Spain”, in BBC Sport[1]:England's attacking impetus was limited to one shot from Lampard that was comfortably collected by keeper Iker Casillas, but for all Spain's domination of the ball his England counterpart Joe Hart was unemployed.
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having no job
- Albanian: i papunë (sq)
- Arabic: مُتَبَطِّل m (mutabaṭṭil), مُتَبَطِّلَة f (mutabaṭṭila)
- Armenian: գործազուրկ (hy) (gorcazurk)
- Azerbaijani: işsiz
- Belarusian: беспрацо́ўны (bjespracóŭny)
- Bulgarian: безрабо́тен (bg) (bezrabóten)
- Burmese: အလုပ်မဲ့ (a.lupmai.)
- Catalan: desocupat, aturat (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 失業的/失业的 (zh) (shīyè de)
- Czech: nezaměstnaný (cs)
- Danish: arbejdsløs (da)
- Dutch: werkloos (nl), arbeidsloos (nl)
- Estonian: töötu (et)
- Finnish: työtön (fi)
- French: au chômage (fr) (invariant), inoccupé (fr), chômeur (fr)
- Georgian: უმუშევარი (umuševari), დაუსაქმებელი (dausakmebeli)
- German: arbeitslos (de)
- Greek: άνεργος (el) (ánergos)
- Hindi: बेकार (hi) (bekār), बेरोज़गार (berozgār)
- Hungarian: munkanélküli (hu)
- Icelandic: atvinnulaus (is)
- Ingrian: töötöin
- Irish: dífhostaithe, neamhfhostaithe
- Italian: disoccupato (it)
- Japanese: 失業者 (ja) (しつぎょうしゃ, shitsugyōsha)
- Khmer: គ្មានការងារធ្វើ (kmiən-kaa ngiə-thvəə)
- Korean: 실업의 (ko) (sireobui), 실직한 (siljikhan), 실업자 (ko) (sireopja)
- Kurdish:
- Central Kurdish: بێکار (bêkar)
- Latvian: bezdarbnieks
- Lithuanian: bedarbis
- Luxembourgish: aarbechtslos
- Macedonian: невработен (nevraboten)
- Maori: kore mahi
- Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
- Norman: d'sempliyé
- Northern Sami: bargguheapme, bargguheapmi
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: arbeidsledig (no), arbeidsløs (no)
- Nynorsk: arbeidsledig, arbeidslaus
- Persian: بیکار (bi-kâr)
- Plautdietsch: oabeitslooss
- Polish: bezrobotny (pl), niezatrudniony
- Portuguese: desempregado (pt)
- Romanian: șomer (ro)
- Russian: безрабо́тный (ru) m (bezrabótnyj), неза́нятый (ru) (nezánjatyj), нерабо́тающий (ru) (nerabótajuščij), нетрудоустро́енный (ru) (netrudoustrójennyj)
- Scottish Gaelic: dìomhain
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: незапослен
- Roman: nezaposlen (sh)
- Slovak: nezamestnaný
- Slovene: brezposeln
- Spanish: desempleado (es), cesante (es), parado (es) (Spain)
- Swedish: arbetslös (sv)
- Thai: ว่างงาน (th) (wâang-ngaan)
- Tibetan: ལས་མེད (las med)
- Turkish: işsiz (tr)
- Ukrainian: безробі́тний (uk) (bezrobítnyj)
- Uyghur: ئىشسىز (ishsiz)
- Vietnamese: thất nghiệp (vi)
- Volapük: nenvobik (vo)
- Welsh: di-waith (cy)
- White Hmong: please add this translation if you can
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unemployed, used as a substantive: the unemployed as a group