subemployed

as in unemployed

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Adjective
  • Likewise, a recent analysis measuring AI exposure risk across various sectors of the economy suggests that workers whose jobs involve tasks that AI can do are actually much less likely than other workers to be unemployed.
    Anjana Susarla, Forbes.com, 11 Aug. 2025
  • Enter Montgomery Clift as Morris Townsend, a charming but wildly unemployed suitor well aware of the fortune she’s poised to inherit.
    Elle Carroll, Vulture, 11 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • Evie, who at the start of the book is in the camp of idle, underemployed protagonists that stud much of contemporary fiction, begins to find meaning in her work.
    Lora Kelley, New Yorker, 7 Aug. 2025
  • Consider underemployed workers and those who are discouraged by hiring conditions.
    Jonathan Lansner, Oc Register, 15 July 2025
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“Subemployed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/subemployed. Accessed 19 Aug. 2025.

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