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As legal slavery passed, we entered into a permanent period of unemployment and underemployment from which we have yet to emerge.
Julian Bond

Meaning of "underemployment" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF UNDEREMPLOYMENT

underemployment  [ˌʌndəɪmˈplɔɪmənt] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF UNDEREMPLOYMENT

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preposition
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determiner
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Underemployment is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES UNDEREMPLOYMENT MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Underemployment

Underemployment refers to an employment situation that is insufficient in some important way for the worker, relative to a standard. Examples include holding a part-time job despite desiring full-time work, and overqualification, where the employee has education, experience, or skills beyond the requirements of the job. Underemployment has been studied in recent decades from a variety of perspectives, including economics, management, psychology, and sociology. In economics, for example, the term underemployment has three different distinct meanings and applications. All meanings involve a situation in which a person is working, unlike unemployment, where a person who is searching for work and cannot find a job. All meanings involve under-utilization of labor which is missed by most official definitions and measurements of unemployment. Underemployment can refer to: ▪ "Overqualification" or "overeducation", or the employment of workers with high education, skill levels, or experience in jobs that do not require such abilities. For example, a trained medical doctor who works as a taxi driver would experience this type of underemployment.

Definition of underemployment in the English dictionary

The definition of underemployment in the dictionary is the condition of not being fully or adequately employed.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH UNDEREMPLOYMENT


cloyment
ˈklɔɪmənt
complement
ˈkɒmplɪmənt
compliment
ˈkɒmplɪmənt
deployment
dɪˈplɔɪmənt
disemployment
ˌdɪsɪmˈplɔɪmənt
element
ˈɛlɪmənt
employment
ɪmˈplɔɪmənt
enjoyment
ɪnˈdʒɔɪmənt
experiment
ɪkˈspɛrɪmənt
implement
ˈɪmplɪmənt
maldeployment
ˌmældɪˈplɔɪmənt
misemployment
ˌmɪsɪmˈplɔɪmənt
overemployment
ˌəʊvərɪmˈplɔɪmənt
payment
ˈpeɪmənt
preemployment
ˌpriːɪmˈplɔɪmənt
redeployment
ˌriːdɪˈplɔɪmənt
self-employment
ˌsɛlfɪmˈplɔɪmənt
subemployment
ˌsʌbɪmˈplɔɪmənt
supplement
ˈsʌplɪmənt
unemployment
ˌʌnɪmˈplɔɪmənt

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE UNDEREMPLOYMENT

underdressed
underdrive
underearth
undereat
undereducated
underemphases
underemphasis
underemphasise
underemphasize
underemployed
underestimate
underestimation
underexploit
underexpose
underexposed
underexposure
underfed
underfeed
underfeeding
underfelt

WORDS THAT END LIKE UNDEREMPLOYMENT

advance payment
advertisement
balloon payment
cash payment
copayment
debt repayment
down payment
full employment
loan repayment
method of payment
mortgage payment
natural rate of unemployment
overpayment
prepayment
re-employment
repayment
social security payment
stop payment
transfer payment
underlayment
underpayment

Synonyms and antonyms of underemployment in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «underemployment» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF UNDEREMPLOYMENT

Find out the translation of underemployment to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of underemployment from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «underemployment» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

就业不足
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

subempleo
570 millions of speakers

English

underemployment
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

ठेका
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

العمالة الناقصة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

неполная занятость
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

subemprego
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

আংশিক বেকারত্ব
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

sous-emploi
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Pengangguran
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Unterbeschäftigung
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

不完全雇用
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

불완전 고용
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Underemployment
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

thiếu việc làm
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

தகுதிகுறைந்த
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

बेरोजगारी
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

eksik istihdam
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

sottoccupazione
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

bezrobocie
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

неповна зайнятість
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

subocupare
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

υποαπασχόληση
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

onderindiensneming
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

brist på sysselsättning
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

undersysselsetting
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of underemployment

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «UNDEREMPLOYMENT»

The term «underemployment» is regularly used and occupies the 105.016 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «UNDEREMPLOYMENT» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about underemployment

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3 QUOTES WITH «UNDEREMPLOYMENT»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word underemployment.
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Marc Andreessen
Qualified software engineers, managers, marketers and salespeople in Silicon Valley can rack up dozens of high-paying, high-upside job offers any time they want, while national unemployment and underemployment is sky high.
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Julian Bond
As legal slavery passed, we entered into a permanent period of unemployment and underemployment from which we have yet to emerge.
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Iain Duncan Smith
With high underemployment - currently over one million part-time workers in the UK want to work more hours - sanctioning clients who cannot increase their hours seems to be both unworkable and unfair.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «UNDEREMPLOYMENT»

Discover the use of underemployment in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to underemployment and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Underemployment: Psychological, Economic, and Social Challenges
This book synthesizes the current understanding of the phenomenon by bringing together scholars with diverse perspectives and expertise.
Douglas C. Maynard, Daniel C. Feldman, 2011
2
The Education-jobs Gap: Underemployment Or Economic Democracy
"Most of this book is devoted to documenting the unprecedented amount of present learning activity, assessing the extensive and multi-faceted 'underemployment' of this learning in paid workplaces, and offering an explanation for why this ...
D. W. Livingstone, 2004
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Underemployment Equilibria: Essays in Theory, Econometrics ...
This 1991 book is a selection of Jacques Drèze's work over the last decade on the topics of lasting unemployment, stagflation and unused capacity.
Jacques Drèze, 1993
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Surveys of Economically Active Population, Employment, ...
Invisible underemployment Concepts Compared to visible underemployment, which is a statistical concept directly measurable by labour force and other surveys, invisible underemployment is "primarily an analytical concept reflecting a ...
Ralf Hussmanns, Farhad Mehran, Vijaya Varmā, 1990
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The Social Costs of Underemployment: Inadequate Employment ...
Going beyond the usual focus on unemployment, this 2004 book explores the health effects of other kinds of underemployment including forms of inadequate employment as involuntary part-time and poverty wage work.
David Dooley, JoAnn Prause, 2003
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Underemployment Among Asians in the United States: Asian ...
This volume traces the modern critical and performance history of this play, one of Shakespeare's most-loved and most-performed comedies. The essay focus on such modern concerns as feminism, deconstruction, textual theory, and queer theory.
Anna B. Madamba, 1998
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Spatial Dimensions of Unemployment and Underemployment: A ...
REGIONAL. ASPECTS. OF. UNEMPLOYMENT. AND. UNDEREMPLOYMENT. IN . RURAL. PUNJAB. 3.1 Organisation of the chapter In the previous chapter, a due note was taken, among other things, of the unemployment situation in Punjab ...
Gopal Krishan, 1986
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The New Economy, Stress, and Health: An Examination of ...
CHAPTER 6 RESULTS: MENTAL HEALTH EFFECTS OF ADULT LIFE COURSE UNDEREMPLOYMENT The analyses in this chapter relate intraindividual underemployment trajectories across the life course to subsequent mental health  ...
Jennifer Moren Cross, 2007
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Economic Growth & Employment Structure: A Study of Labour ...
First, it seeks to assess the trends in agricultural underemployment in developing countries during 1969-85. This is not an easy task in view of the paucity of reliable statistical information on employment or underemployment in agriculture.
Ajit Kumar Ghose, 1990
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How Important are Labor Markets to the Welfare of ...
that the lowest average hours worked and highest underemployment rates are found among unpaid family workers, both within and outside agriculture. This finding holds true regardless of how one defines underemployment. In addition to  ...

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «UNDEREMPLOYMENT»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term underemployment is used in the context of the following news items.
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Newest crop of college grads may find underemployment easing a bit
It was one of the most iconic symbols of post-recession America: the college graduate working as a coffee shop barista, carrying a mountain of student debt and ... «Washington Post, May 15»
2
Arizona's underemployment among highest in country
A drop in construction jobs here has contributed to a high underemployment rate, recent figures show. Only two states, California and Nevada, have higher ... «Arizona Daily Star, Apr 15»
3
Jobless, underemployment rates drop
The PSA defines the underemployed as those who have expressed the desire to work additional hours in their present job, to have a second job, or to have a ... «Inquirer.net, Mar 15»
4
Help wanted: College degree not needed
But many recent grads are underemployed, working in jobs that don't require degrees. The underemployment rate has been on the rise since 2003 and now ... «CNNMoney, Sep 14»
5
Does your college major determine your chances of …
A recent survey on underemployment found the top 10 college majors that are most and least likely to lead to jobs that make people feel underemployed. Is your ... «Tech Times, Aug 14»
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The college majors most and least likely to lead to underemployment
Employees with degrees in fields like English, general studies, and graphic design are among the most likely to report feeling "underemployed" at their current ... «Washington Post, Aug 14»
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Food stamp use shows continued 'underemployment' pain
Luxuries were affordable for Linda Fish before she lost her job in retail management in 2009. "I won't lie. The dinners out, the perfect martinis, the salon visits ... «USA TODAY, Aug 14»
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The Most Underemployed Jobs In America
Underemployment is a real concern for today's job seekers as the economic ... poor compensation explained their feelings of underemployment, just 45% were ... «Forbes, Aug 14»
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States where it's hardest to get full-time work
While the labor market has improved significantly since the depths of the recession in 2009, high underemployment may be an indication that the economy is still ... «USA TODAY, Aug 14»
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Overeducated and Underemployed: What Happens to College …
It finds that once young adults escape underemployment and find a job that matches their education level, they may catch up to their peers' earning powers ... «Slate Magazine, Jun 14»

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