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unemˈployed, ppl. a. and n.
Also 7–8 unim-.
[un-1 8.]
1. Not put to use; not applied to some end or purpose.
1600Surflet Countrie Farme ii. iii. 205 Wherefore it behooueth that the vnimploied or fallow ground..be first well cleansed from stones. 1665in De Foe Plague (1754) 53 Till their Coaches..have stood unemploy'd by the Space of five or six Days after such Service. 1748Chesterfield Let. 16 Feb., Every moment may be put to some use, and that with much more pleasure than if unemployed. 1826Kirby & Sp. Entomol. III. 363 The real instrument of suction, which when unemployed is retracted within the tubulet. 1882Child Ballads Advt. p. vii, No becoming means has been left unemployed.
2. a. Not engaged in any work or occupation; idle; spec. temporarily out of work.
1667Milton P.L. iv. 617 Other Creatures all day long Rove idle unimploid, and less need rest. 1677A. Yarranton Eng. Improv. 61 Admit there be in England and Wales a hundred thousand poor people unimployed. 1740Cibber Apol. (1756) I. 167, I remember him three times for some years unemploy'd in any theatre. 1824L. M. Hawkins Annaline I. 40 Being unemployed they amused themselves and others with conjectures. 1860Ruskin Unto this Last iii. §54 The vexed question of the destinies of the unemployed workmen. 1887[see unemployable].
b. absol. or as n.
1782‘J. H. St. J. de Crèvecœur’ Lett. from Amer. Farmer viii. 212 The means of procuring subsistence in Europe are limited..the manufacturer is overcharged with supernumerary hands; what then must become of the unemployed? 1817T. Bernard Supply of Employment & Subsistence for Labouring Classes 28 Our sea⁓coasts would swarm with adventurous fishing boats; new means of employment would be afforded to the..unemployed. 1882Pall Mall G. 10 May 3/2 The genuine total abstainers among the unemployed. 1900H. Lawson On Track 108 Here I've been mooning round like an unemployed for three weeks.
c. Pertaining to, connected with, unemployed persons.
1844Stocqueler Handbk. Brit. India 49 During this interval he draws the unemployed salary of three hundred rupees per mensem. 1895Daily News 19 Aug. 5/2 Twenty-four per cent. of its 10,000 members received unemployed benefits. |