The police assembled several unemployed men.
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Unemployed
//ˌʌnɪmˈplɔɪd//
Synonyms for "unemployed" (176 found)
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Closest matches (36)
Strong matches (52)
Adjective(20 words)
Related words (88)
nonworkeroffoff dutyoff workoriginalotioseout of commissionout of employout of harnesspanhandlerparasitepink slippedpristineput asideput byrentiersreserveriding at anchorsavedspare
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Adjective(34 words)
Noun(1 words)
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10 entriesTranslations
99 translations across 60 languages.
Albanian
1 entries- i papunë adj (having no job)
Arabic
2 entries- مُتَبَطِّل adj (having no job)
- مُتَبَطِّلَة adj (having no job)
Armenian
1 entries- գործազուրկ adj (having no job)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- işsiz adj (having no job)
Belarusian
1 entries- беспрацо́ўны adj (having no job)
Bulgarian
2 entries- безрабо́тен adj (having no job)
- безработните noun (the unemployed as a group)
Burmese
1 entries- အလုပ်မဲ့ adj (having no job)
Catalan
2 entries- aturat adj (having no job)
- desocupat adj (having no job)
Central Kurdish
1 entries- بێکار adj (having no job)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 失業的 /失业的 adj (having no job)
- 失業者 /失业者 noun (the unemployed as a group)
Czech
1 entries- nezaměstnaný adj (having no job)
Danish
2 entries- arbejdsløs adj (having no job)
- arbejdsløs noun (the unemployed as a group)
Dutch
3 entries- arbeidsloos adj (having no job)
- werkloos adj (having no job)
- werklozen noun (the unemployed as a group)
Estonian
1 entries- töötu adj (having no job)
Finnish
2 entries- työtön adj (having no job)
- työttömät noun (the unemployed as a group)
French
4 entries- au chômage adj (having no job)
- chômeur adj (having no job)
- inoccupé adj (having no job)
- les chômeurs noun (the unemployed as a group)
Georgian
2 entries- დაუსაქმებელი adj (having no job)
- უმუშევარი adj (having no job)
German
2 entries- arbeitslos adj (having no job)
- die Arbeitslosen noun (the unemployed as a group)
Greek
2 entries- άνεργος adj (having no job)
- άνεργοι noun (the unemployed as a group)
Hebrew
1 entries- מובטל adj (having no job)
Hindi
3 entries- निकम्मा adj (having no job)
- बेकार adj (having no job)
- बेरोज़गार adj (having no job)
Hungarian
2 entries- munkanélküli adj (having no job)
- állástalan adj (having no job)
Icelandic
1 entries- atvinnulaus adj (having no job)
Ingrian
1 entries- töötöin adj (having no job)
Irish
2 entries- dífhostaithe adj (having no job)
- neamhfhostaithe adj (having no job)
Italian
2 entries- disoccupato adj (having no job)
- i disoccupati noun (the unemployed as a group)
Japanese
2 entries- 失業者 adj (having no job)
- 失業者 noun (the unemployed as a group)
Khmer
1 entries- គ្មានការងារធ្វើ adj (having no job)
Korean
4 entries- 실업의 adj (having no job)
- 실업자 adj (having no job)
- 실직한 adj (having no job)
- 실업자 noun (the unemployed as a group)
Latvian
1 entries- bezdarbnieks adj (having no job)
Lithuanian
1 entries- bedarbis adj (having no job)
Luxembourgish
1 entries- aarbechtslos adj (having no job)
Macedonian
1 entries- невработен adj (having no job)
Māori
2 entries- kore mahi adj (having no job)
- hunga kore mahi noun (the unemployed as a group)
Norman
1 entries- d'sempliyé adj (having no job)
Northern Sami
2 entries- bargguheapme adj (having no job)
- bargguheapmi adj (having no job)
Norwegian Bokmål
2 entries- arbeidsledig adj (having no job)
- arbeidsløs adj (having no job)
Norwegian Nynorsk
2 entries- arbeidslaus adj (having no job)
- arbeidsledig adj (having no job)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- كارسز adj (having no job)
Persian
1 entries- بیکار adj (having no job)
Plautdietsch
1 entries- oabeitslooss adj (having no job)
Polish
3 entries- bezrobotny adj (having no job)
- niezatrudniony adj (having no job)
- bezrobotni noun (the unemployed as a group)
Portuguese
2 entries- desempregado adj (having no job)
- os desempregados noun (the unemployed as a group)
Romanian
1 entries- șomer adj (having no job)
Russian
4 entries- безрабо́тный adj (having no job)
- неза́нятый adj (having no job)
- нерабо́тающий adj (having no job)
- нетрудоустро́енный adj (having no job)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- dìomhain adj (having no job)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- nezaposlen adj (having no job)
- незапослен adj (having no job)
Slovak
1 entries- nezamestnaný adj (having no job)
Slovene
1 entries- brezposeln adj (having no job)
Spanish
3 entries- cesante adj (having no job)
- desempleado adj (having no job)
- parado adj (having no job)
Swedish
2 entries- arbetslös adj (having no job)
- arbetslös noun (the unemployed as a group)
Thai
1 entries- ว่างงาน adj (having no job)
Tibetan
1 entries- ལས་མེད adj (having no job)
Turkish
2 entries- işsiz adj (having no job)
- işsizler noun (the unemployed as a group)
Ukrainian
1 entries- безробі́тний adj (having no job)
Urdu
1 entries- بے روز گار adj (having no job)
Uyghur
1 entries- ئىشسىز adj (having no job)
Vietnamese
1 entries- thất nghiệp adj (having no job)
Volapük
1 entries- nenvobik adj (having no job)
Welsh
1 entries- di-waith adj (having no job)
Sample sentences
14 total sentences available.
Being unemployed gave me the chance to stand back and think about my life.
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I hear that the number of the unemployed has been increasing recently.
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The unemployed always wind up at the bottom of the heap.
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