noun
definition
Unemployed people.
example
The unemployed are a growing portion of the population.
adjective
definition
Having no job despite being able and willing to work.
definition
Having no use, not doing work
Examples of unemployed in a Sentence
Howard was unemployed but was forced to eat an expensive lease.
You've got more time on your hands than an unemployed whaler.
Large numbers of unemployed, ex-criminal and other needy persons have been aided or dealt with.
A numerous floating population of labourers, attracted at certain periods by pressing work in the port, and afterwards left unemployed owing to the enormous fluctuations in the corn trade, is one of the features of Odessa.
A large public park, opened in 1866, was laid out as a relief work for unemployed operatives during the cotton famine of the earlier part of the decade.
Quinn sits around knowing what we're doing, and the world is treating him like some minor failed unemployed scientist.
After his return to England from the Cape, being unemployed, Gordon decided to go to Palestine, a country he had long desired to visit.
The food is there, perhaps at a slightly enhanced price, but the unemployed labourer has no money to buy it.
Florence after the date 1292, it becomes criminal to be scioperato, or unemployed in industry.
Many of them felt profound disquiet at the sufferings of the unemployed.
I despised my employment and Howie was unemployed.
In the meantime, I've got to run out this morning to meet with my financial manager to adjust my plan now that I'm happily unemployed.
Hyndman and others in Socialist meetings and processions in London to demand work for the unemployed.
In addition to the municipal support of the poor-houses there are large funds derived from bequests for the relief of the necessitous and deserving poor; while night shelters and people's kitchens have been organized on an extensive scale for the temporary relief of the indigent unemployed.
He took part in the unemployed demonstrations of 1887 and was put on trial for his share in the Trafalgar Square riot, but was acquitted.
Wives of the unemployed could obtain no relief unless deserted, a provision which encouraged the breakup of destitute families.
The financial options for unemployed people without sufficient collateral are no less.
He also colluded in benefit fraud by allowing employees time to sign on as unemployed.
Dave has been unemployed for a number of years and is naturally delighted when he gets a job working for a timber merchant.
This unemployed jester, who's nobody's fool, has paid for his merry jape, I send his tongue to you.
A UN study last year found that 80% were unemployed and one in five were permanently hungry.
This is especially true with respect to the struggling members of society, including laborers, farmers, fishermen, and the unemployed.
Telesoftware was touted as a method of training the unemployed, through intelligent viewdata sets, to design microcomputers and 64K memory chips.
With the river ahead the route passes the hanging garden which forms a lovely landscape feature and was built by unemployed miners in 1830.
It addresses social inclusion by offering a one year traineeship to the long term unemployed.
In the libraries visited, this profile characterized some of the male unemployed library users aged 18-25 and school truants.
From the 31st day onwards we will pay 1/30th of the monthly benefit for each day you remain continuously unemployed or disabled.
He had been told that he must not earn money from his music whilst he was officially unemployed.
Among its employees are over 100 local residents who were formerly unemployed.
Getting a job improves the amount of power a previously unemployed person has over their life.
Colin finally got to work with children on a playbus in the final years of the band but is currently unemployed again.
Get your act straight together and get down to the job center as soon as possible and register as unemployed.
The collapse of the world market in sugar, in 1720, led to many becoming unemployed.
India produces around 2 million graduates each year, many of whom remain unemployed, in spite of their qualifications.
Factories close, workers are left unemployed, and those who could benefit from the goods produced in those factories have to go without.
Spent six months unemployed playing Civilization II, watching Countdown, occasionally going to the gym and watching 9/11 unfurl from a Hammersmith gym.
Like the other members of this minority, he stoically endured the taunts of unemployed Polish youths in his neighborhood.
He explained to me that with a lawnmower, one person would be able to do the job and eleven men would be unemployed.
The Internet replaced travel agents; are they all unemployed?
After being unemployed for a while, do n't feel sorry for me cos I had a great tan last summer.
The main group targetted are those aged 18-24 who have been unemployed for a period of 6 months or more.
He has, however, been unemployed for five years.
Ismail was a 30-year-old unemployed laborer and a native of British Somaliland.
Jobcentre Plus may be able to assist unemployed jobseekers with the cost of traveling to the interview through the Travel to Interview scheme.
The number of unemployed people fell by 29,000 over the quarter.
In more recent times unemployed youths from Jarrow were engaged on reclamation work along the coast during the early 1930's.
But her neat, buttoned-up life starts to unravel when her daughter Elena returns home, angry and unemployed.
This workfare scheme compels 18-24 year olds unemployed over 6 months to work for under £ 55 per week.
She told everyone she was out of town during the week to masquerade that she was unemployed.
Once per year if you are unemployed and plan on looking for employment within the next 60 days.