subemployed

as in unemployed

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Adjective
  • As well as job displacement, AI risks deepening wealth inequality—concentrating the gains among those who own or are able to leverage its abilities, while throwing the remainder into the same basket of the formerly employable unemployed.
    Hugh Cameron, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Sep. 2025
  • Everything below has a higher poverty level, and the numbers mean that there’s a greater chance of being poor than the national average chance of being unemployed.
    Erik Sherman, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • This rate remains high, with about 45% still underemployed after a decade.
    Cheryl Robinson, Forbes.com, 14 Sep. 2025
  • The initiative aims to address skills gaps and labor shortages in the manufacturing sector and provide opportunities for unemployed and underemployed individuals.
    Rick Barrett, jsonline.com, 18 Aug. 2025
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“Subemployed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/subemployed. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.

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