as in out of work
having no job
the plant closings left a significant portion of the town's population unemployed
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Recent Examples of unemployed
Police have detained 22-year-old Umar Hayat, an unemployed man from the city of Faisalabad, over Sana’s murder.
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Sophia Saifi, CNN Money, 9 June 2025
There’s little to no vanity here in the central pairing of Brenda Blethyn, as the elderly widow Elsie, and Andrea Riseborough, as her unemployed neighbor Colleen, and the two very different actors’ styles work perfectly together.
—Damon Wise, Deadline, 6 June 2025
The number of open jobs has come back down to align more closely with the number of unemployed workers — a far cry from mid-2022, when there were roughly two openings for every job seeker.
—Shannon Carroll, Quartz, 6 June 2025
Eight percent of healthy working-age adults who used Medicaid in 2023 were unemployed and weren't caregiving or attending school, according to KFF, a nonpartisan organization that does health policy research.
—Arkansas Online, 3 June 2025
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Sophia Saifi, CNN Money, 9 June 2025
There’s little to no vanity here in the central pairing of Brenda Blethyn, as the elderly widow Elsie, and Andrea Riseborough, as her unemployed neighbor Colleen, and the two very different actors’ styles work perfectly together.
—Damon Wise, Deadline, 6 June 2025
The number of open jobs has come back down to align more closely with the number of unemployed workers — a far cry from mid-2022, when there were roughly two openings for every job seeker.
—Shannon Carroll, Quartz, 6 June 2025
Eight percent of healthy working-age adults who used Medicaid in 2023 were unemployed and weren't caregiving or attending school, according to KFF, a nonpartisan organization that does health policy research.
—Arkansas Online, 3 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unemployed
jobless
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New applications for jobless benefits rose by 8,000 to 247,000 for the week ending May 31, the Labor Department said Thursday.—
Boston Herald Wire Services,
Boston Herald,
5 June 2025
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What To Know New data published Thursday by the Department of Labor shows a weekly increase of about 8,000 new applications for jobless benefits for the week ending May 31, bringing the total to 247,000.—
Nick Mordowanec,
MSNBC Newsweek,
5 June 2025
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“Unemployed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unemployed. Accessed 18 Jun. 2025.
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