Meaning

(transitive) To cause someone to become unemployed..

Example Sentences

Oh, good! Who's that guy? I bet he's a terror! What's he been, sabotaging Egypt's infrastructure? Or harassing Egyptian women on the streets? Or unemploying Egyptian people? What's he do?

In addition, new technologies are adopted which are less labour-using, thus unemploying workers. Over the postwar years, factors of this sort have contributed to a gradual upward drift in unemployment rates, even during expansions.

It is, however, a reality that some developers are concerned that code generators and the like will "unemploy" them.

"Put us all out of business, especially you, Cathy. One of the first things they'll edit out of the human genome is myopia, and diabetes and that — " "It'll unemploy you before it unemploys me, Professor," Cathy said with an impish smile.

Agriculture, which is arguably the biggest business in the world, is also the single most environmentally destructive human activity. It is increasingly technology based and “unemploys” people at a dramatic rate.

“This is off the record. If one word of this appears in your tabloid, I will use all my wealth and connections to shut it down and unemploy you permanently.”

Advocating any policy to raise wages that does not raise these bounds risks raising workers' compensation above their productivity; thus, unemploying the workers that the activists were trying to help.

Word Forms

• unemploys
• unemploying
• unemployed

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When Should You Use Unemploy?

Use unemploy when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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