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unemployable en · ADJ
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English un-
English employ
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom
Proto-Italic *-ðlom
Proto-Italic *-ðlis
Latin -bilis
Latin -ābilis
Old French -ablebor.
Middle English -able
English -able
English employable
English unemployable
From un- + employable.
Meanings
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Not employable.
Forms
Deriveds
unemployably · unemployableness · unemployability
Translations (3)
sv oanställningsbar (not employable) · hu alkalmazhatatlan (not employable) · de nicht erwerbsfähig (not employable)
unemployable en · NOUN
Pronunciation
Etymology
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English un-
English employ
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom
Proto-Italic *-ðlom
Proto-Italic *-ðlis
Latin -bilis
Latin -ābilis
Old French -ablebor.
Middle English -able
English -able
English employable
English unemployable
From un- + employable.
Meanings
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A person who is not suited to employment.
No longer are stereotypical gay men the sole victims of police entrapment. No longer are unwashed unemployables the only ones who would consider biting a cop during the course of an arrest. The solons and jurists of yesterday may well become the convicts of tomorrow.
1976 August 28, David P. Brill, “Talking Politics”, in Gay Community News, volume 4, number 9, page 11:
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de nicht erwerbsfähige Person (person not suited to employment)