What is another word for "unemployed"?

Roget's Thesaurus (1911) lists these synonyms for "unemployed": abstain, abstinence, alone, applicant, aside, aspirant, away, back, bagman, beggar, bidder, bum, cadger, candidate, canvasser, case, cast, child, claimant, client, competitor, core, destroy, desuetude, discard, dismantle, dismiss, dispense, disusage, disuse, done, eject, flower, for, forbear, forbearance, give, habit, hard, have.

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