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单词 under-employed
释义 under-emˈployed, a.
[under-1 10 a.]
Insufficiently employed, not used to the optimum capacity. Chiefly of persons or machinery.
1908W. S. Churchill in R. S. Churchill Winston S. Churchill (1969) II. Compan. ii. xii. 852 We cannot distinguish between the unemployed and the under⁓employed.1941Economist 22 Feb. 241/1 The existence of idle or under-employed machinery—and labour—is sheer waste to the war effort.1962Daily Tel. 15 June 14/2 There is ample evidence of a progressively under⁓employed industry and of a turn to export business to employ spare capacity.1980Jrnl. R. Soc. Arts Feb. 150/2 No sensible organization keeps an expensive designer under-employed.
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