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
disemployment
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Origin and Etymology of disemploy
1dis- + employ
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