unemployed

English

Etymology

un- +‎ employed

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˌʌnɪmˈplɔɪd/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
Rhymes: -ɔɪd

Adjective

unemployed (not comparable)

Having no job despite being able and willing to work.
The government announced a new initiative to help the unemployed.
Having no use, not doing work
- 2011 November 12, “International friendly: England 1-0 Spain”, in BBC Sport‎:
  England's attacking impetus was limited to one shot from Lampard that was comfortably collected by keeper Iker Casillas, but for all Spain's domination of the ball his England counterpart Joe Hart was unemployed.

Synonyms

jobless, see also Thesaurus:unemployed

Antonyms

see Thesaurus:unemployed

Related terms

unemployment

Translations

having no job

Albanian: i papunë (sq)
Arabic: مُتَبَطِّل‎ m (mutabaṭṭil), مُتَبَطِّلَة‎ f (mutabaṭṭila)
Armenian: գործազուրկ (hy) (gorcazurk)
Azerbaijani: işsiz
Belarusian: беспрацо́ўны (bjespracóŭny)
Bulgarian: безрабо́тен (bg) (bezrabóten)
Burmese: အလုပ်မဲ့ (a.lupmai.)
Catalan: desocupat, aturat (ca)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 失業的 (zh), 失业的 (zh) (shīyè de)
Czech: nezaměstnaný (cs)
Danish: arbejdsløs (da)
Dutch: werkloos (nl), arbeidsloos (nl)
Estonian: töötu (et)
Finnish: työtön (fi)
French: au chômage (fr) (invariant), inoccupé (fr), chômeur (fr)
Georgian: უმუშევარი (umuševari)
German: arbeitslos (de)
Greek: άνεργος (el) (ánergos)
Hindi: बेकार (hi) (bekār), बेरोज़गार (berozgār)
Hungarian: munkanélküli (hu)
Icelandic: atvinnulaus (is)
Irish: dífhostaithe, neamhfhostaithe
Italian: disoccupato (it)
Japanese: 失業者 (ja) (しつぎょうしゃ, shitsugyōsha)
Khmer: គ្មានការងារធ្វើ (kmiən-kaa ngiə-thvəə)
Korean: 실업의 (ko) (sireobui), 실직한 (siljikhan), 실업자 (ko) (sireopja)
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: بێکار‎ (ku) (bêkar)
Latvian: bezdarbnieks
Lithuanian: bedarbis
Luxembourgish: aarbechtslos
Macedonian: невработен (nevraboten)
Maori: kore mahi
Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
Norman: d'sempliyé
Northern Sami: bargguheapme, bargguheapmi
Norwegian:
Bokmål: arbeidsledig (no), arbeidsløs (no)
Nynorsk: arbeidsledig, arbeidslaus
Persian: بی‌کار‎ (bikâr)
Plautdietsch: oabeitslooss
Polish: bezrobotny (pl), niezatrudniony
Portuguese: desempregado (pt)
Romanian: șomer (ro)
Russian: безрабо́тный (ru) m (bezrabótnyj), неза́нятый (ru) (nezánjatyj), нерабо́тающий (ru) (nerabótajuščij), нетрудоустро́енный (ru) (netrudoustrójennyj)
Scottish Gaelic: dìomhain
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: незапослен
Roman: nezaposlen (sh)
Slovak: nezamestnaný
Slovene: brezposeln
Spanish: desempleado (es), cesante (es), parado (es) (Spain)
Swedish: arbetslös (sv)
Thai: ว่างงาน (th) (wâang-ngaan)
Tibetan: ལས་མེད (las med)
Turkish: işsiz (tr)
Ukrainian: безробі́тний (uk) (bezrobítnyj)
Uyghur: ئىشسىز‎ (ishsiz)
Vietnamese: thất nghiệp (vi)
Volapük: nenvobik (vo)
Welsh: di-waith (cy)
White Hmong: please add this translation if you can

unemployed, used as a substantive: the unemployed as a group

Chinese:
Mandarin: 失業者 (zh), 失业者 (zh) (shīyèzhě)
Danish: arbejdsløs (da) c
Dutch: werklozen (nl) m pl or f pl
Finnish: työttömät (fi)
French: les chômeurs (fr) m pl
German: die Arbeitslosen (de) pl
Greek: άνεργοι (el) m pl (ánergoi)
Italian: i disoccupati (it) m pl
Japanese: 失業者 (ja) (しつぎょうしゃ, shitsugyōsha)
Korean: 실업자 (ko) (sireopja)
Maori: hunga kore mahi
Polish: bezrobotni pl
Portuguese: os desempregados (pt) m pl
Russian: безрабо́тные (ru) m pl or f pl (bezrabótnyje)
Swedish: arbetslös (sv) c
Turkish: işsizler pl