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unemployed people

unemployed people

5 1.7
People without a job who are looking for work
  • noun
  • /ˌʌnɪmˈplɔɪd ˈpipəl/
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  • However, the proportion of unemployed people who were jobless for 27 weeks or longer was little changed at 23.9 percent.
  • unemployed people cope
  • cope with stigma
  • way in which unemployed people

So it means that unemployed people will be paid across the globe.

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Examples

  • Add to that figure frustrated job-seekers, and the percentage of unemployed people rises to 43 percent.

    Academic text (2006)
  • There are enough unemployed people to fill every single job vacancy in the country.

    Blog text (14)
  • If business is good and jobs appear, then unemployed people are immediately ready to take those jobs.

    Blog text (26)
  • So it means that unemployed people will be paid across the globe.

  • And you know what, to avoid any misunderstanding, we're going to give housing and jobs to our own unemployed people, too.

  • And now I see how small the problem these 800 unemployed people are having could be...

    Blog text (32)
  • The government has launched four pilot schemes that investigate ways to help unemployed people suffering from mental health problems find work.

    Academic text (2014)
  • The number of unemployed people who lost their jobs declined by 427,000 over the year, to 3.2 million.

    Academic text (2018)
  • There are 170,588 registered unemployed people in the urban areas of Tripura (Economic Census in 2013).

    Academic text (2018)
  • In our community, many unemployed people are attending workshops to enhance their skills.

Synonyms

unemployed
vsunemployed people
4 1.4

People without work who are looking for jobs

actively look for work instead of only being available to employers

Antonyms

600 1.0

A person employed to do physical or routine jobs

People who do jobs using their hands in places like factories

Surface Forms

Morphology

unemployed + people

The phrase is a simple adjectival noun phrase where 'unemployed' (having no paid employment and seeking work) directly modifies 'people' (human beings), so the collective meaning is transparently compositional. This standard adjective + noun pattern is cross-linguistically common and readily understandable by a B1 learner who knows both constituents.

Etymology

The phrase unemployed people gives a simple picture: unemployed means 'without a job' and people are those who need work. Imagine a group waiting at a job centre for employers to hire them, and that clear image explains why the phrase means 'people without a job' who are 'looking for work'.