[
UK
/ˌʌndəɹɛmplˈɔɪd/
]
[ US /ˈəndɝɪmˈpɫɔɪd/ ]
[ US /ˈəndɝɪmˈpɫɔɪd/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
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.