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Definition of Disemployed
1. disemploy [v] - See also: disemploy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Disemployed
Literary usage of Disemployed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Game of Life by Bolton Hall (1909)
""I do not understand you, Socrates; for if the people cultivated lots, they would
not be disemployed." " I meant disemployed from their natural avo- ..."
2. Social Religion: An Interpretation of Christianity in Terms of Modern Life by Scott Nearing (1913)
"We have been told for years that if the disemployed mechanic would go West, ...
He was not poverty stricken, but an industrious mechanic, disemployed by a ..."
3. Plantation and Frontier Documents: 1649-1863: Illustrative of Industrial by John R. Commons, Ulrich Bonnell Phillips (1909)
"It will soon be found that they must adopt an owner responsible for their
maintenance, when disemployed, because they cannot raise the required pledge. ..."
4. A History of the Presidency by Edward Stanwood (1916)
"The government to guarantee the reemployment of wage earners who maybe disemployed
by reason of changes in tariff schedules. Fourth : The abolition of the ..."
5. The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor by Jeremy Taylor, Charles Page Eden, Reginald Heber, Alexander Taylor (1850)
"... though he lost his relation and his friends, he is turned out of service, and
disemployed, he begs with a load of his old sins upon his shoulders, ..."
6. Socialism in Thought and Action by Harry Wellington Laidler (1920)
"This leads to an industrial reserve army, which means not only idleness for those
disemployed, but the reduction of wages for those still retained. ..."
7. Readings in Industrial Society: A Study in the Structure and Functioning of by Leon Carroll Marshall (1918)
"... by circumstances entirely unconnected with their personality: a) The "disemployed"
are out of.work, not because they are unable to work, ..."
8. The Life and Work of the Seventh Earl of Shaftesbury, K. G. by Edwin Hodder (1893)
"The frost has ended with us, and the disemployed people, thank God. are returning
to work. It has been a hard time, and yet I have almost prayed for a ..."
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