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Unemploy

verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To cause someone to become unemployed. transitive

    "In addition, new technologies are adopted which are less labour-using, thus unemploying workers. Over the postwar years, factors of this sort have contributed to a gradual upward drift in unemployment rates, even during expansions."

Etymology

From un- + employ.

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