underemployed in English

adjective

1

(of a person) not having enough paid work or not doing work that makes full use of their skills and abilities.

There are other people who are employed, but they're underemployed in terms of their skills.

Use "underemployed" in a sentence

1. Able people are kept underemployed.

2. He was underemployed and not satisfied with his work.

3. Among the underemployed is Marty Rasmussen of Walnut Creek, Calif.

4. Migrants are likely to be poor and underemployed.

5. And 70 percent of this new labor force were previously unemployed or underemployed.

6. As the mid - term election looms, a staggering number of Americans remain unemployed or underemployed.

7. Ethnic identity is one; the presence of a large pool of underemployed, testosterone - charged youths is another.

8. If they could sell their land, tens of millions of underemployed farmers might find productive work.

9. Industry, such as it was, almost stood still, and the jobless and underemployed roamed city streets.

10. This may mean that some workers are unemployed or that all workers are underemployed, or a combination of both.

11. A tremendous number have joined the ranks of the unemployed and the underemployed without learning new and different ways to add value.

12. Although he might well spend his days in one place, obsessively devoted to music-making, he would always be morally underemployed.

13. 23 Although he might well spend his days in one place, obsessively devoted to music-making, he would always be morally underemployed.

14. Others (especially on weekdays) are often too inebriated to safely travel to their homes, or too embarrassed to face their spouses when they are unemployed or underemployed.

15. This is partially because a struggling economy with a weak labor market results in forgone tax revenue, as unemployed or underemployed workers are either paying no income taxes, or paying less in income taxes than they would if fully employed.