1. Not engaged in a gainful occupation
   "unemployed workers marched on the capital"

1. People who are involuntarily out of work (considered as a group)
   "the long-term unemployed need assistance"; "The government implemented new policies to support unemployed people";
   - unemployed people

Derived forms: unemployeds

See also: discharged, dismissed, fired, idle, jobless, laid-off, out of work, pink-slipped

Type of: people

Antonym: employed

Encyclopedia: Unemployed