Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Unemployed.
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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
disemploy .
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Examples
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Three months from now, could bands of the disemployed celebrate by reentering their work places and demand to be paid for their work?
Rabbi Arthur Waskow: Revolutionary Egypt: From Red Sea Of Old To Tahrir Square Now Rabbi Arthur Waskow 2011
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We face with stupor the despair of 15 million Americans who are officially counted among the disemployed, and another 5 million who are not even counted because they have given up looking for jobs.
Rabbi Arthur Waskow: Revolutionary Egypt: From Red Sea Of Old To Tahrir Square Now Rabbi Arthur Waskow 2011
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They have been disemployed by decisions of those who hold power in our society, who have used their power to grasp even more power by dumping hundreds of millions of dollars into election campaigns, who have used their power to win obscene tax cuts so as to put even more money into buying more power to keep the disemployed in their despair -- and all of us in stupor.
Rabbi Arthur Waskow: Revolutionary Egypt: From Red Sea Of Old To Tahrir Square Now Rabbi Arthur Waskow 2011
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Three months from now, could bands of the disemployed celebrate by reentering their work places and demand to be paid for their work?
Rabbi Arthur Waskow: Revolutionary Egypt: From Red Sea Of Old To Tahrir Square Now Rabbi Arthur Waskow 2011
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We face with stupor the despair of 15 million Americans who are officially counted among the disemployed, and another 5 million who are not even counted because they have given up looking for jobs.
Rabbi Arthur Waskow: Revolutionary Egypt: From Red Sea Of Old To Tahrir Square Now Rabbi Arthur Waskow 2011
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They have been disemployed by decisions of those who hold power in our society, who have used their power to grasp even more power by dumping hundreds of millions of dollars into election campaigns, who have used their power to win obscene tax cuts so as to put even more money into buying more power to keep the disemployed in their despair -- and all of us in stupor.
Rabbi Arthur Waskow: Revolutionary Egypt: From Red Sea Of Old To Tahrir Square Now Rabbi Arthur Waskow 2011
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Enlarge your financial reserve: The traditional reserve - three months 'income on tap - is not a sufficient safety net for the freshly disemployed white-collar class.
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The theory is supposed to work as follows: when in international competition the relatively inefficient activities lose out and jobs are eliminated, at the same time the relatively efficient activities (those with the comparative advantage) expand, absorbing both the labor and capital that were disemployed in activities with a comparative disadvantage.
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Many of the disemployed workers have given up job-hunting and are turning in the direction of social revolution.
Crisis of the Semifeudal Economy - Lectures on Phillippine Crisis and Revolution Abhay N 2007
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Although twenty per cent. of the labouring population were turned adrift in that locality, not one supernumerary was disemployed.
The History of the Great Irish Famine of 1847 (3rd ed.) (1902) With Notices of Earlier Irish Famines John O'Rourke
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