underemployed

1. 1.

   employed only part-time when one needs full-time employment or not making full use of your skills

   “migrants are likely to be poor and underemployed”

   “able people are kept underemployed”

   Similarpart-time

Questions about underemployed

What does underemployed mean?

underemployed means "employed only part-time when one needs full-time employment or not making full use of your skills".

How many syllables are in underemployed?

underemployed has 4 syllables: un-de-rem-ployed. The stress falls on "un". In IPA it is /ˈʌndɚɪmˈplɔɪd/.

Is underemployed a common word?

underemployed is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with underemployed?

2 words rhyme with underemployed. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.