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out of a job

ADJECTIVE

jobless

Synonyms

WEAK

between jobs collecting unemployment benefits laid-off on the dole out of work without employment without gainful employment workless

ADJECTIVE

out of work

Synonyms

WEAK

between jobs collecting unemployment idle jobless laid-off on the dole unemployed

Antonyms

WEAK

employed

ADJECTIVE

unemployed

Synonyms

STRONGEST

idle inactive jobless underemployed

STRONG

down free loafing

WEAK

at liberty between jobs closed-down disengaged fired laid-off leisured on layoff on the bench on the dole on the shelf out of action out of work resting unapplied unengaged unexercised unoccupied unused without gainful employment workless

Antonyms

STRONGEST

active busy working

WEAK

employed occupied

Example Sentences

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But millions of textile workers could also be out of a job.

From BBC • May 18, 2026

It wasn’t exactly the best time to be starting a business, with 19% of the country’s workforce out of a job.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 7, 2026

Then, after the 2008 financial crisis, he was out of a job.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 2, 2025

Perhaps one day it will even be able to write this column in the style of Alan Abelson—and put me out of a job.

From Barron's • Oct. 10, 2025

Now she and Jones were both out of a job.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole

out of a job

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