Unemployed

a.	1.	Not employed in manual or other labor; having no regular work.
	2.	Not invested or used; as, unemployed capital.
	3.	(Economics) actively seeking employment but unable to find a suitable job.

Adj.

1.

unemployed - not engaged in a gainful occupation; "unemployed workers marched on the capital" Antonyms: employed - having your services engaged for; or having a job especially one that pays wages or a salary; "most of our graduates are employed"

at a standstill, at anchor, at leisure, at liberty, at loose ends, available, beggar, bummer, cadger, coupon clippers, dead-still, disengaged, drone, extra, fallow, fired, fixed, free, freeloader, fresh, held back, held in reserve, held out, idle rich, immobile, immotive, in abeyance, in hand, leisure, leisure class, leisured, let go, lounge lizard, lumpen, lumpen proletariat, mendicant, mint, moocher, motionless, moveless, new, nonworker, off, off duty, off work, original, otiose, out of commission, out of employ, out of harness, out of work, panhandler, parasite, pristine, put aside, put by, rentiers, reserve, riding at anchor, saved, spare, spiv, sponger, static, stationary, statuelike, still, stock-still, stored, suspended, the unemployable, the unemployed, to spare, unapplied, unbeaten, unconsumed, unemployable, unengaged, unexercised, unexpended, unhandled, unmoved, unmoving, unoccupied, unspent, untapped, untouched, untrodden, unused, unutilized, waived, workless

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