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underemployed

[ UK /ˌʌndəɹɛmplˈɔ‍ɪd/ ]
[ US /ˈəndɝɪmˈpɫɔɪd/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. employed only part-time when one needs full-time employment or not making full use of your skills
    migrants are likely to be poor and underemployed
    able people are kept underemployed

How To Use underemployed In A Sentence

  • `The general feeling seems to be that you are underemployed at present. TOY SHOP
  • I do not find the respondent to be intentionally underemployed.
  • Thousands of unemployed or underemployed workers have parlayed one-off job requests into part- or full-time work. Serfing the Web: Sites Let People Farm Out Their Chores
  • Besides an embittered intelligentsia, anti-Chechen barriers in higher education and industry, along with the high birth rate, generated a large “subproletariat” of underemployed, rural young men, dependent on migratory work. The Return
  • migrants are likely to be poor and underemployed
  • We are seeing more clients that have what we call underemployed, where they may be holding multiple jobs to make ends meet or maybe that they are not getting a full 40 hours a week, so they are looking for something better. CNN Transcript Dec 26, 2009
  • They're underemployed, and yet they make some of the best employees because they're grateful for the jobs.
  • Mr. Berry's closing submission goes some way towards recognizing that Larry is now underemployed.
  • The vast majority of them are beset with multiple problems: Most lack job skills and are chronically unemployed or at best underemployed.
  • Some migrants reported that they were underemployed and did not work at the level for which training had prepared them.
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