Synonym: idle, jobless, out of work, unoccupied. Similar words: unemployment, employer, employee, employ, employment, annoyed, overjoyed, ploy. Meaning: n. people who are involuntarily out of work (considered as a group). adj. not engaged in a gainful occupation.
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91. The bishop criticized the government for its "callous, uncaring attitude" to the homeless and the unemployed.
92. Almost 13 per cent of the working population is already unemployed.
93. Unemployed people often feel they are on the scrap - heap.
94. Most of the unemployed are not workshy and genuinely do want jobs.
95. He just wants to draw attention to the plight of the unemployed.
96. That summer I left school and joined the ranks of the unemployed.
97. He's unemployed at the moment and has been for over six months.
98. Public expenditure was being stretched to the limit by having to support 3 million unemployed people.
98. Sentencedict.com try its best to gather and build good sentences.
99. One problem not mentioned is the unemployed may not have the skills to fill the vacancies on offer.
100. The unemployed cannot withdraw their labour — they have no power.
101. With Dave unemployed, we haven't got much money coming in at the moment.
102. Firms should be allowed to offer jobs to the long-term unemployed at a lower wage.
103. There are now over four million unemployed workers in this country.
104. When I leave school at the end of this month, I'll probably have to join the ranks of the unemployed.
105. Many unemployed people welcome the chance to do purposeful work, even if unpaid.
106. There are now over four million unemployed in this country.
107. She's been unemployed for two years and it's such a waste of her talents.
108. The long - term unemployed now constitute a sort of underclass.
109. £50 would help to subsidize the training of an unemployed teenager.
110. She made a stirring campaign speech on improving the lot of the unemployed.
111. Bringing up a family when you're unemployed is no picnic.
112. Last month, 370,000 Americans joined the ranks of the unemployed.
113. The government has dreamed up some cockeyed scheme for getting unemployed youngsters back into work.
114. A quarter of the local workforce is / are unemployed.
115. The number of unemployed has passed the two million mark for the first time.
116. The scheme was intended to provide financial help to unemployed workers.
117. If I said there were three million unemployed, that would be a conservative estimate.
118. At 25 he was an unemployed musician with no prospects.
119. The unemployed engineer wrote a dozen applications for jobs but got nothing.
120. An increasing percentage of the labour force is now unemployed.
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