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disemploy, v. rare.|dɪsɪmˈplɔɪ|
Also 7 -imploy.
[f. dis- 6 + employ v.]
trans. To cease to employ, dismiss from, or throw out of, employment.
1618Bolton Florus iv. ii. 266 The Senate consulted to disemploy Caesar. 1642Jer. Taylor Episc. (R.), If personal defailance be thought reasonable to disimploy the whole calling, then neither clergy nor laity should ever serve a prince. 1886O. Lodge Inaug. Addr. in L'pool Univ. Coll. Mag. 139 Their fellows employing them or disemploying them as it suits their convenience.
Hence disemˈployed ppl. a., not employed, out of employment, unemployed.
1651Jer. Taylor Holy Living (1727) 13 Sins and irregularities..which usually creep upon idle, disemployed and curious persons. 1669Woodhead St. Teresa i. xviii. 109 No one of them is so dis-employed as..to be able to attend to anything else. 1807W. Taylor in Ann. Rev. V. 187 The disemployed, the unnecessary, the superfluous poor. 1893Columbus (Ohio) Disp. 22 Mar., There is very little disemployed labor in the country. |