chômeur

Contents

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French chômeur.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ʃəʊˈmɜː/

Noun

chômeur (plural chômeurs)

1. (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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃo.mœʁ/

Noun

chômeur m (plural chômeurs, feminine chômeuse)

1. An unemployed person.

   Il est chômeur - He is unemployed.

Related terms

• chômage
• chômer

Further reading

• “chômeur” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• moucher