underemployed
Example Sentences
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Changing the way children are taught might help ensure they are "not left unemployed and sectors that need people are not left underemployed".
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026
Another 41.5% are underemployed, meaning they are working in jobs that typically do not require a college degree.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 18, 2026
Jack, the investment broker who teams up with Tess in more ways than one, is played by Anoop Desai in a dashing but theatrically underemployed performance.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 19, 2025
Mr. Rogen is more than comfortable as a well-heeled mogul who’s essentially likable albeit arrogant, and if Mr. Ansari comes across as too intelligent to be so chronically underemployed, he makes for a fine everyman.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2025
Half the young men of that age group are either unemployed or underemployed.
From "Monster" by Walter Dean Myers
