What is another word for underemployed?

Synonyms for underemployed
ˌʌn dər ɛmˈplɔɪdun·der·em·ployed

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Princeton's WordNet0.0 / 0 votes

  1. underemployedadjective

    employed only part-time when one needs full-time employment or not making full use of your skills

    "migrants are likely to be poor and underemployed"; "able people are kept underemployed"

    Antonyms:
    full-time

PPDB, the paraphrase database0.0 / 0 votes

  1. List of paraphrases for "underemployed":

    under-employed, underemployment, under-

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How to use underemployed in a sentence?

  1. Scott Stewart:

    You see these disenfranchised people, and it’s a very good recruitment pool, (Jihadists) are looking for angry, underemployed guys. It’s a good target audience for them.

  2. Amy Peltier:

    They're employed, but they're drastically underemployed making these low wages, and they're never going to make enough to get over the hump.

  3. Ting Lu:

    Following several rounds of lockdowns, many individuals are worn out, unemployed or underemployed, and have drained their savings to a level at which they now have to reduce spending.

  4. Tsehynesh Tara:

    In Ethiopia we have more than 500 underemployed female weavers in each village. We have a responsibility to give them a job -- and then show their work to the world. i'm very happy to make a sustainable income to support my family and also to work for a well-known fashion brand in Ethiopia.


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