The police assembled several unemployed men.
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Unemployed
/ˌʌnɪmˈplɔɪd/
Synonyms for "unemployed" (128 found)
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Closest matches (26)
at a standstillat anchorat leisureat libertyat loose endsavailablebeggarbummercadgercoupon clippersdead-stilldisengageddroneextrafallowfiredfixedfreefreeloaderfresh
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Adjective(2 words)
between jobsemploymentally challenged
Strong matches (38)
Related words (64)
off workoriginalotioseout of commissionout of employout of harnessout of workpanhandlerparasitepristineput asideput byrentiersreserveriding at anchorsavedsparespivspongerstatic
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Adjective(7 words)
persistent joblessprolonged joblessthe joblessunemployed individualunemployed personunemployment categoryunutilized
Noun(1 words)
unemployed people
Related word relations
OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.
More general
12 entriesconditioneconomic categoryeconomic conditioneconomic indicatorlabor categorylabor statuspeoplepersonresource statusstatestate of beingutilization
More specific
8 entrieselderly long-term unemployedidle capacitylong term unemployedlong-term unemployedshort-term unemployedunemployed youthunused assetsyouth long-term unemployed
Collocations
5 entrieschronically unemployedlong term unemployednewly unemployedunemployed populationunemployed workers
Inflections
2 entriesmore unemployedmost unemployed
Derivations
1 entriesAntonyms
1 entriessimilar
8 entriesSample sentences
14 total sentences available.
Being unemployed gave me the chance to stand back and think about my life.
Source: tatoeba (264946)
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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