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unemployable definitions

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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: not acceptable for employment as a worker; "his illiteracy made him unemployable" [ant: employable]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: 1887 not acceptable for employment • unemployability noun • unemployable noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. & n. --adj. unfitted for paid employment. --n. an unemployable person. Derivatives: unemployability n.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

Someone who is unemployable does not have a job and is unlikely to get a job, because they do not have the skills or abilities that an employer might want. He freely admits he is unemployable and will probably never find a job. ADJ

Moby Thesaurus

at leisure, at liberty, at loose ends, available, disengaged, fallow, free, functionless, idle, in disrepair, inapplicable, inoperable, inoperative, jobless, leisure, leisured, lumpen, nonfunctional, nonutilitarian, off, off duty, off work, otiose, out of employ, out of harness, out of order, out of whack, out of work, unconducive, unemployed, unfit, unhelpful, unoccupied, unsuitable, unusable, unworkable