unemployed
Example Sentences
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"We don't buy fish or meat anymore," said unemployed textile worker Khatun, who continues her search for a job.
From Barron's
The Colombian film “A Poet” is, yes, about a poet, though that title takes on a revolving set of connotations—an aspiration, an occupation, a mocking epithet, a euphemism for “unemployed.”
Continuing claims, which scale with the total size of the unemployed population, fell to 1.83 million in the week through Jan. 17, compared with 1.87 million a week earlier.
Paulo found an unemployed gospel singer who made a living scavenging Latin America's largest trash dump.
The number of unemployed people fell by 136,100, the agency said.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
