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0 not having a job that provides money:
- He's been unemployed for over a year.
1 people who do not have a job that provides money:
- There are now over four million unemployed in this country.
- Our department provides services for the unemployed.
2 not having a job that provides money:
- an unemployed actor
3 someone who is unemployed does not have a job:
- Only 2.3% of the survey sample were unemployed and seeking work.
- Unemployment figures include only those who are officially registered as unemployed.
- The portion of the jobless who had been unemployed for more than six months was 21.6% in June, not much changed from June last year.
- unemployed people/workers We should be focussing more efforts on labour-market issues such as getting unemployed people back to work.
4 people who do not have jobs, considered as a group:
- Government programs for the unemployed will place new emphasis on training, education, and relocation assistance.
- According to Labor Department statistics, nearly a half million people joined the ranks of the unemployed in November.

Being unemployed entitles you to free medical treatment.
With Dave unemployed, we haven't got much money coming in at the moment.
His financial problems escalated after he became unemployed.
The gunman in Wednesday's attack has been identified as Lee Giggs, an unemployed truck driver.
The government publishes figures every six months showing how many people are unemployed.
In my area, we have something like 20,000unemployed in spite of the activity in shipping and shipbuilding and arms.
If we have to raise the unemployed's standards, it will be difficult to get them down later on.
The quality of life in the cities declined under the weight of the unemployed and underprivileged.