funemployed
English
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Etymology
[edit]Blend of fun + unemployed.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˌfʌnɪmˈplɔɪd/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
- Rhymes: -ɔɪd
Adjective
[edit]funemployed (not comparable)
- (neologism) In a state of enjoyable unemployment.
- 2009 May 15, Bryce Longton, “Not another travel deal site”, in BlackBook[1], archived from the original on 16 July 2016:
- Maybe you’re funemployed and you can go anytime?
- 2009 June 4, Kimi Yoshino, “For the ‘funemployed,’ unemployment is welcome”, in Los Angeles Times[2], archived from the original on 7 May 2016:
- Buoyed by severance, savings, unemployment checks or their parents, the funemployed do not spend their days poring over job listings.
- 2009 June 5, “The recession and ‘funemployment’”, in The Week[3], archived from the original on 16 July 2016:
- And the so-called millennial generation's "weirdly upbeat" word "speaks volumes" about how this well-fed, well-organized age group is dealing with the worst downturn since the 1930s—the "young and funemployed" are taking the time to relax and "find themselves," but many also volunteer or self-educate.
- 2016, Benjamin H. Snyder, The Disrupted Workplace […] , Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 144:
- A world without rigid temporal boundaries gave some a rare chance to relax and regroup after many years of busyness. Some took advantage of this freedom by becoming, as one respondent cleverly put it, “funemployed.”