unemployed people

1. 1.

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

   “the long-term unemployed need assistance”

   Synonymsunemployed

   Broaderpeople

   plural

Questions about unemployed people

What does unemployed people mean?

unemployed people means "people who are involuntarily out of work (considered as a group)".

What is another word for unemployed people?

Close synonyms include unemployed. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is unemployed people a common word?

unemployed people 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.