unemployed

English

Etymology

From un- +‎ employed.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌʌnɪmˈplɔɪd/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɔɪd

Adjective

unemployed (not comparable)

1. Having no job despite being able and willing to work.

   The government announced a new initiative to help the unemployed.

2. Having no use, not doing work
   • 2011 November 12, “International friendly: England 1-0 Spain”, in BBC Sport‎^[1]:

     England's attacking impetus was limited to one shot from Lampard that was comfortably collected by keeper Iker Casillas, but for all Spain's domination of the ball his England counterpart Joe Hart was unemployed.

Synonyms

• jobless, see also Thesaurus:unemployed

Antonyms

• see Thesaurus:unemployed

Derived terms

• shake hands with the unemployed

 

Related terms

• unemployment

Translations

having no job

• Albanian: i papunë (sq)
• Arabic: مُتَبَطِّل m (mutabaṭṭil), مُتَبَطِّلَة f (mutabaṭṭila)
• Armenian: գործազուրկ (hy) (gorcazurk)
• Azerbaijani: işsiz
• Belarusian: беспрацо́ўны (bjespracóŭny)
• Bulgarian: безрабо́тен (bg) (bezrabóten)
• Burmese: အလုပ်မဲ့ (a.lupmai.)
• Catalan: desocupat, aturat (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 失業しつぎょう的てき／失しつ业的 (zh) (shīyè de)

• Czech: nezaměstnaný (cs)
• Danish: arbejdsløs (da)
• Dutch: werkloos (nl), arbeidsloos (nl)
• Estonian: töötu (et)
• Finnish: työtön (fi)
• French: au chômage (fr) (invariant), inoccupé (fr), chômeur (fr)
• Georgian: უმუშევარი (umuševari), დაუსაქმებელი (dausakmebeli)
• German: arbeitslos (de)
• Greek: άνεργος (el) (ánergos)
• Hindi: बेकार (hi) (bekār), बेरोज़गार (berozgār), निकम्मा (hi) (nikammā)
• Hungarian: munkanélküli (hu)
• Icelandic: atvinnulaus (is)
• Ingrian: töötöin
• Irish: dífhostaithe, neamhfhostaithe
• Italian: disoccupato (it)
• Japanese: 失業しつぎょう者しゃ (ja) (しつぎょうしゃ, shitsugyōsha)
• Khmer: គ្មាន​ការងារ​ធ្វើ (kmiən-kaa ngiə-thvəə)
• Korean: 실업의 (ko) (sireobui), 실직한 (siljikhan), 실업자 (ko) (sireopja)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: بێکار (bêkar)

  Northern Kurdish: please add this translation if you can

• Latvian: bezdarbnieks
• Lithuanian: bedarbis
• Luxembourgish: aarbechtslos
• Macedonian: невработен (nevraboten)
• Maori: kore mahi
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Norman: d'sempliyé
• Northern Sami: bargguheapme, bargguheapmi
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: arbeidsledig (no), arbeidsløs (no)

  Nynorsk: arbeidsledig, arbeidslaus

• Persian: بی‌کار (bi-kâr)
• Plautdietsch: oabeitslooss
• Polish: bezrobotny (pl), niezatrudniony
• Portuguese: desempregado (pt)
• Romanian: șomer (ro)
• Russian: безрабо́тный (ru) m (bezrabótnyj), неза́нятый (ru) (nezánjatyj), нерабо́тающий (ru) (nerabótajuščij), нетрудоустро́енный (ru) (netrudoustrójennyj)
• Scottish Gaelic: dìomhain
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: незапослен

  Roman: nezaposlen (sh)

• Slovak: nezamestnaný
• Slovene: brezposeln
• Spanish: desempleado (es), cesante (es), parado (es) (Spain)
• Swedish: arbetslös (sv)
• Thai: ว่างงาน (th) (wâang-ngaan)
• Tibetan: ལས་མེད (las med)
• Turkish: işsiz (tr)
• Ukrainian: безробі́тний (uk) (bezrobítnyj)
• Urdu: بے روز گار (be roz gār)
• Uyghur: ئىشسىز (ishsiz)
• Vietnamese: thất nghiệp (vi)
• Volapük: nenvobik (vo)
• Welsh: di-waith (cy)
• White Hmong: please add this translation if you can

unemployed, used as a substantive: the unemployed as a group

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 失業しつぎょう者しゃ／失しつ业者 (zh) (shīyèzhě)

• Danish: arbejdsløs (da) c
• Dutch: werklozen (nl) m pl or f pl
• Finnish: työttömät (fi)
• French: les chômeurs (fr) m pl
• German: die Arbeitslosen (de) pl
• Greek: άνεργοι (el) m pl (ánergoi)
• Italian: i disoccupati (it) m pl
• Japanese: 失業しつぎょう者しゃ (ja) (しつぎょうしゃ, shitsugyōsha)
• Korean: 실업자 (ko) (sireopja)
• Maori: hunga kore mahi
• Polish: bezrobotni pl
• Portuguese: os desempregados (pt) m pl
• Russian: безрабо́тные (ru) m pl or f pl (bezrabótnyje)
• Swedish: arbetslös (sv) c
• Turkish: işsizler pl