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From un- employed
unemployed (not comparable )
Having no job despite being able and willing to work.
Synonyms: jobless workless see also Thesaurus:unemployed Antonyms: employed working The government announced a new initiative to help the unemployed .
1934 Employment Security Review , volumes 2-5 , page 15 :Several special types of unemployed workers are described. These include nonmodal workers, threshold workers, "the unemployables", and the physically handicapped.
Having no use, not doing work
Synonyms: disused idle see also Thesaurus:inactive , Thesaurus:obsolete Antonyms: employed in use 2011 November 12, “International friendly: England 1-0 Spain”, in BBC Sport [1] 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 . 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 / 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 ) , დაუსაქმებელი ( dausakmebeli )
German: arbeitslos (de)
Greek: άνεργος (el) ( ánergos )
Hindi: बेकार (hi) ( bekār ) , बेरोज़गार ( berozgār ) , निकम्मा (hi) ( nikammā )
Hungarian: munkanélküli (hu)
Icelandic: atvinnulaus (is)
Ingrian: töötöin
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 ( bêkar )
Northern Kurdish: please add this translation if you can
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 ( bi-kâr )
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 )
Urdu: بے روز گار ( be roz gār )
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
