unemployed
unemployed is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 1 sense, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.Not invested or used; as, unemployed capital.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- 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
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
Related questions
Reverse-dictionary questions
Definition-first questions whose answer is unemployed.
Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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