UNEMPLOYED PEOPLE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

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

Example:

the long-term unemployed need assistance

Synonyms:

unemployed; unemployed people

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

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)