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UNEMPLOYED PEOPLE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does unemployed people mean?
• UNEMPLOYED PEOPLE (noun)
The noun UNEMPLOYED PEOPLE has 1 sense:
1. people who are involuntarily out of work (considered as a group)
Familiarity information: UNEMPLOYED PEOPLE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
People who are involuntarily out of work (considered as a group)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Synonyms:
unemployed; unemployed people
Context example:
the long-term unemployed need assistance
Hypernyms ("unemployed people" is a kind of...):
people ((plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively)
Domain usage:
plural; plural form (the form of a word that is used to denote more than one)
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