unemployed person
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2.0
- noun
- /ˌʌnɪmˈplɔɪd ˈpɜrsən/
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desempleado
- As an unemployed person, I am eager to find a job that matches my skills.
So but it's not enough that you don't have a job is an unemployed person is somebody that doesn't have a job and is looking for one.
- So but it's not enough that you don't have a job is an unemployed person is somebody that doesn't have a job and is looking for one.
Examples
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For example, an employed person has a lower risk of re-offending than an unemployed person and may be given a lighter sentence than an unemployed person.
Academic text (2006) -
Every unemployed person has a particular situation; we cannot reason volumetrically as if all the unemployed are alike.
Blog text (16) -
As an unemployed person, I would give anything to eat.
Blog text (1) -
These results suggest that selection may account for a large part of the excess mortality of unemployed persons.
Academic text (1999) -
So but it's not enough that you don't have a job is an unemployed person is somebody that doesn't have a job and is looking for one.
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For example, an employed person has a lower risk of re-offending than an unemployed person and may be given a lighter sentence than an unemployed person.
Academic text (2006) -
Even if it was 10 million middle-class jobs lost, then we are talking about 100k per unemployed person. If they can't get back on their feet with that, then they get the Darwin award.
Blog text (16) -
She described the court ruling as "a major milestone for our campaign," but pointed out that it doesn't "give one unemployed person a job," emphasizing that she'd continue to work on improving the city as she had.
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What an unemployed person does lose is their time if they go into low-return activities (and they do abound) that look so-so on the resume, and that's a real opportunity cost to them.
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Kieselback (1988) asserts that if the unemployed person feels respected as a friend or member of a social group rather than stigmatized as one of the unemployed, then this can help his or her self-perception.
Academic text (1995)
Antonyms
How Employed
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a person who does not have a paid job but is available for and seeking work' is directly and compositionally derived from 'unemployed' (having no paid employment and seeking work) + 'person' (a human individual). This straightforward noun phrase follows common cross-linguistic patterns, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily understand it.
Etymology
The compound unemployed person comes from adding un- to employed, where employed means 'having a job'. So an unemployed person is literally someone not having work, which is why it means 'a person who does not have a paid job but is available for and seeking work'.