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underemployed
/ ˌʌԻəɪˈɔɪ /
adjective
not fully or adequately employed
Other 51Թ Forms
- underemployment noun
- ˌܲԻˈDz⳾Գ noun
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of underemployed1
Example Sentences
And, as they are also often unemployed or underemployed following displacement, many suffer a significant drop in income.
Highly qualified Black professionals with skills, education and ability still find themselves un and underemployed.
I think about my career and need to find work that gets me out of being constantly underemployed.
Erica Tay, an economist at Maybank Investment Banking Group, said that since China considers employment as working at least one hour per week, there’s no way to account for underemployed youth.
The report noted that a key reason why some countries face labor shortages despite having ample numbers of unemployed or underemployed workers is a mismatch between jobs and skills and education.
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When To Use
Underemployed means employed only part-time when one wants to be working full-time.Someone who’s underemployed has a job and wants to be working more but can’t, often due to a lack of available jobs.The term is often used in the same context as unemployed, which means not employed at all. Both underemployed and unemployed are sometimes used to refer to such people collectively, as in These programs are intended to help the unemployed and underemployed. Less commonly, underemployed refers not to working less than desired but to not being used to one’s full potential or abilities. People who are overqualified for a job sometimes end up underemployed in this way.The state of being underemployed is underemployment.The verb employ also means to use, and underemployed can be used to describe something that’s not used as much as it should be, as in an underemployed strategy. Synonyms for this sense of the word are underused and underutilized.Example: The unemployment rate can be misleading if it doesn’t take into account the many people who are underemployed.
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