underemployed
/ʌndərɪmˈplɔɪd
/adjective
(Of a person) not having enough paid work or not doing work that makes full use of their skills and abilities: underemployed part-time workers...
- There are other people who are employed, but they're underemployed in terms of their skills.
- Namely, many were underemployed men who possessed some military skills, enjoyed ready access to the arms of the day, and knew how to exploit relatively light government supervision.
- The name isn't important, but since I'm an underemployed historian, I'll use subtext because these words are about all I have to show for my education.
Derivatives
underemployment
- There is still plenty of underemployment in this country - people who would like to work longer hours - and I'm sure the 93,000 people on the dole wouldn't mind filling in a bit here and there.
- We'd like to think that we're the strongest economic power in the world, but at the same time we've got this real big problem of underemployment.
- We have a high amount of underemployment in this country.
Rhymes
- resurge
- resurgence
- resurgency
- resurgent
- resurging
- resurprise
- resurrect
- resurrectable
- full moon
- full-motion
- full-motion video
- full-mouthed
- full name
- fullness
- full of beans
- full of oneself
- full of one's own importance
- full of years
- full on
- full (or tight) as a tick
- full out
- full page
- full pay
- full point
- full price