subemployed

as in unemployed

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Adjective
  • The firms surveyed 1,480 workers who were unemployed at some point from 2019 to 2024 and the results were provided exclusively to USA TODAY. Need a break?
    Paul Davidson, USA Today, 23 Apr. 2025
  • Over 40 percent of young people in Gabon are unemployed.
    Saikou Jammeh, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • These jobs exist in Boston’s core and provide a clear path to the middle class for those unemployed, underemployed workers, veterans, and or union workers looking to upgrade their skills, and those with employment challenges such as CORIs.
    Ed Gaskin, Boston Herald, 9 Mar. 2024
  • The education system’s college-for-all model is overproducing underemployed knowledge workers.
    Oren Cass, Foreign Affairs, 16 Jan. 2025
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“Subemployed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/subemployed. Accessed 1 May. 2025.

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