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UK
/ɛmplˈɔɪəbəl/
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[ US /ɛmˈpɫɔɪəbəɫ/ ]
[ US /ɛmˈpɫɔɪəbəɫ/ ]
NOUN
- a person who is qualified and ready to work
ADJECTIVE
- physically and mentally capable of working at a regular job and available
How To Use employable In A Sentence
- The new divide is between us and the unemployables.
- The wing commander's mission is to provide a trained and employable force of squadrons and specified unit type codes.
- He hires all his unemployable comedy friends and we're supposed to chuckle along with their camaraderie, as though paying eight bucks makes us eligible to be in on the in-jokes.
- Now, a former professor of Communism is utterly unemployable.
- For example, if the powers that be want to disenfranchise you or make you unemployable, that's one sure way to do it.
- Training in different genres, and an ability to play -- and improvise -- nonclassical music makes an instrumentalist more employable. Classical Musicians Learn to Improvise
- Because of the legislation I could not employ a woman. Women have made themselves unemployable. They have scored an own goal.
- Economies in most of the region continue to deteriorate, complicated by a high birthrate which is generating huge numbers of unemployable young men.
- Little information is directly employable for end-user tasks, such as printing booklets, mirroring Web sites or searching through e-mail.
- This was intended to make further education and training college graduates more "employable". News24 Top Stories