UNEMPLOYED PEOPLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does unemployed people mean? 

• UNEMPLOYED PEOPLE (noun)
  The noun UNEMPLOYED PEOPLE has 1 sense:

1. people who are involuntarily out of work (considered as a group)

  Familiarity information: UNEMPLOYED PEOPLE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNEMPLOYED PEOPLE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

People who are involuntarily out of work (considered as a group)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

unemployed; unemployed people

Context example:

the long-term unemployed need assistance

Hypernyms ("unemployed people" is a kind of...):

people ((plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively)

Domain usage:

plural; plural form (the form of a word that is used to denote more than one)