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unemploy en · VERB

Etymology

From un- + employ.

Meanings

1. (transitive) To cause someone to become unemployed.
   • “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.” 2009, Shayla Black, Seduce Me In Shadow, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 167:
   • "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. 1997, Tom Clancy, Executive Orders, Penguin, →ISBN, page 385:
   • It is, however, a reality that some developers are concerned that code generators and the like will "unemploy" them. 1987, Advance Papers, IEEE Computer Society Press:
   • 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. 2014, Benjamin Powell, Out of Poverty: Sweatshops in the Global Economy, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 25:
   • 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. 1999, Gregory Cajete, A People's Ecology: Explorations in Sustainable Living, Book Marketing Group, →ISBN, page 67:
   • 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. 1978, Fred Caloren, Michel Chossudovsky, Paul Gingrich, Is the Canadian Economy Closing Down?, Black Rose Books Ltd., →ISBN, page 88:
   • 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? 2013, Jon Stewart, 'Morsi "Viva Hate"', The Daily Show 2013-04-01

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Translations (1)

it disimpiegare (to cause to become unemployed)