the unemployed
noun
: people who have no jobs
Many of the city's unemployed are former factory workers.
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Denying lawyers for the unemployed and evicted In some counties that have invested in public defender offices, indigent defense has been transformed.
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Ilana Panich-Linsman, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2025
Its primary goal was to provide work for the unemployed.
—Joanna Dee Das, The Conversation, 4 Apr. 2025
As a share of the unemployed workforce, job leavers accounted for 12.9 percent in February, compared to 13.2 percent in January and 10.2 percent a year earlier.
—William Lambers, Newsweek, 8 Mar. 2025
More than half of India’s population is under the age of thirty, but, according to a report by the International Labour Organization, the group accounts for almost eighty-three per cent of the unemployed.
—Amitava Kumar, The New Yorker, 8 Mar. 2025
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Ilana Panich-Linsman, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2025
Its primary goal was to provide work for the unemployed.
—Joanna Dee Das, The Conversation, 4 Apr. 2025
As a share of the unemployed workforce, job leavers accounted for 12.9 percent in February, compared to 13.2 percent in January and 10.2 percent a year earlier.
—William Lambers, Newsweek, 8 Mar. 2025
More than half of India’s population is under the age of thirty, but, according to a report by the International Labour Organization, the group accounts for almost eighty-three per cent of the unemployed.
—Amitava Kumar, The New Yorker, 8 Mar. 2025
See All Example Sentences for the unemployed
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“The unemployed.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/the%20unemployed. Accessed 21 Apr. 2025.
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