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unemployed

🇬🇧 UK/.ʌnim'plɒid/🇺🇸 US
TOEFLB1

Definitions

adj.

Without a paid job despite being able and willing to work

失业的,没有工作的

n.

People who are without jobs, considered as a group

失业者(总称)

🧩 Root Breakdown

Root-derived
unnot, reversal
+
emto put into, to cause
+
ployfold, bend, employ, use
+
edto make, having
=unemployed

Example Sentences

  • 1.

    The unemployed workers gathered outside the factory to protest.

  • 2.

    Government programs aim to support the long-term unemployed.

  • 3.

    She remained unemployed for over a year before finding her current job.

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