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disemploy

transitive verb dis·employ \ ¦dis+ \

Definition of disemploy

: to dismiss from or put out of employment
  • workers disemployed by the shift from a war to a peace economy
  • —Leopold Lippman
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disemployment

\"+\ noun

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Origin and Etymology of disemploy

1dis- + employ

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