underemployed

as in unemployed

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Recent Examples of underemployed Perhaps some underemployed members of Gen Z will build memes about this. Ryan Craig, Forbes.com, 30 May 2025 Only those standing in line for work mistaking their underemployed coworker for their brother can know this feeling, the poem argues. Rosie Stockton may 29, Literary Hub, 29 May 2025 Even underemployed graduates, 52% work in roles not requiring degrees, prefer retail or office jobs over dirty work, despite lower pay. Jack Kelly, Forbes.com, 12 May 2025 These jobs exist in Boston’s core and provide a clear path to the middle class for those unemployed, underemployed workers, veterans, and or union workers looking to upgrade their skills, and those with employment challenges such as CORIs. Ed Gaskin, Boston Herald, 9 Mar. 2024 See All Example Sentences for underemployed
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unemployed
Adjective
  • Schools Free school meals in schools will be expanded to more than 500,000 children whose parents receive a welfare payment known as Universal Credit, which is available to those who are on a low income, unemployed or unable to work.
    Holly Ellyatt, CNBC, 11 June 2025
  • And in another sign the job market has cooled from the hiring boom of 2021-2023, the Labor Department reported one job every unemployed person.
    Boston Herald Wire Services, Boston Herald, 5 June 2025

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“Underemployed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/underemployed. Accessed 1 Jul. 2025.

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