Associations to the word «Unemployed»

Wiktionary

UNEMPLOYED, adjective. Having no job despite being able and willing to work.
UNEMPLOYED, adjective. Having no use, not doing work
UNEMPLOYED, noun. Unemployed people.

Dictionary definition

UNEMPLOYED, noun. People who are involuntarily out of work (considered as a group); "the long-term unemployed need assistance".
UNEMPLOYED, adjective. Not engaged in a gainful occupation; "unemployed workers marched on the capital".

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne