underemployed

«underemployed» in Mova's school dictionary: having a job with fewer hours than you want — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

adjective

meaning for a pupil

1) Underemployed means having a job with fewer hours than you want. tree →

2) Underemployed means doing work that does not use all your skills or training. tree →

sense in the lessons

A formal word from economics and news: «Many young people are underemployed». It tells the reader that someone has work but not enough, or not the right kind. In maths problems, it may describe workers with fewer hours.

examples

• She is underemployed, working only ten hours a week. tree →
• Many graduates are underemployed in jobs that don't need a degree. tree →
• The report counted the unemployed and the underemployed. tree →
• He felt underemployed stacking shelves with his engineering skills. tree →
• Underemployed workers often look for a second job. tree →
• The town has many underemployed people since the factory closed. tree →

note

Different from «unemployed» (having no job at all). Noun: underemployment. Formal; everyday words are «not getting enough hours».

In the corpora

• "Underemployed" means working fewer hours than you want, or in a job below your skills.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «underemployed» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.