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malemployed en · ADJ

Etymology

From mal- + employed.

Meanings

1. (not-comparable) Employed in a job for which one is overqualified or overeducated, usually a job that does not pay as much as one wants or expects.
   • Mal-employed college grads earn half of what their degree-appropriately employed peers do, a difference that adds up to tens of thousands of dollars per year, and millions over a lifetime. 2013 October 2, Rana Foroohar, “Forget Unemployment, Time to Worry About ‘Mal-Employment’”, in Time:

Relateds

unemployed · malemployment · underemployed