How do you use Underemployed in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, plus the exact meaning.
Underemployed meaning
Employed in a job that offers fewer work hours than desired.
Synonyms of Underemployed
Using Underemployed
- The main meaning on this page is: Employed in a job that offers fewer work hours than desired.
- Useful related words include: part-time, parttime.
- In the example corpus, underemployed often appears in combinations such as: are underemployed, underemployed or, underemployed and.
Context around Underemployed
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 8 middle, 7 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Underemployed
- In this selection, "underemployed" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 25.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, unemployed, younger, career, writer, meaning and remote stand out and add context to how "underemployed" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a career underemployed can depress and a struggling underemployed american might. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "underemployed" sits close to words such as abdulkadir, abed and abhay, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with underemployed
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Beginning a career underemployed can depress earnings over a lifetime and delay milestones like and having children. (17 words)
Common Table provides certified culinary and job-skills training to refugees and other unemployed and underemployed individuals. (17 words)
For example, the Ontario Society of Professional Engineersestimates that 33% of engineering graduates in Ontario are underemployed. (17 words)
Ultimately there is no dodging 1 million plus unemployed Australians, or millions more defined as underemployed or underutilised, subsisting on payments the government plans to shelve in the midst of a once-in-a-century ongoing pandemic. (37 words)
Her soft voice becomes a bit sombre when she talks about the social and financial pressure on the jobless and underemployed — people who may have families to support, or student debt looming over them. (34 words)
Economists think they can accurately estimate the lowest unemployment rate consistent with stable inflation, but they pitch it too high, meaning millions of people, disproportionately persons of color, are underemployed for years. (32 words)
Example sentences (20)
I recently spent six months selling solar door-to-door, partly to learn more about the industry, partly out of desperation as an underemployed writer.
The other half end up underemployed, meaning they work in jobs that don’t require a degree or make use of their collegiate-level skills.
We’re both in good health but have noticed some of the younger underemployed/remote worker neighbors have become a bit overly solicitous.
Beginning a career underemployed can depress earnings over a lifetime and delay milestones like and having children.
Economists think they can accurately estimate the lowest unemployment rate consistent with stable inflation, but they pitch it too high, meaning millions of people, disproportionately persons of color, are underemployed for years.
Mnuchin, interviewed on “Fox News Sunday,” was asked whether the country was looking at a “real” unemployment rate — including those who are underemployed — of 25%.
The 1000 Jobs in 1000 Days Initiative was executed by the Premier’s Special Projects Team to provide job opportunities for unemployed and underemployed BVIslanders/Belongers throughout the Territory across various industries.
The Assembly also approved several jobs programs to provide work for people who are underemployed or out of work.
Ultimately there is no dodging 1 million plus unemployed Australians, or millions more defined as underemployed or underutilised, subsisting on payments the government plans to shelve in the midst of a once-in-a-century ongoing pandemic.
Underemployed workers can receive partial unemployment benefits if the wages are less than what they would make on unemployment.
But ultimately, people, even devoted Amazon customers, see something perverse in the company owned by the richest man on earth paying a lighter tax bill than a struggling, underemployed American might pay.
Common Table provides certified culinary and job-skills training to refugees and other unemployed and underemployed individuals.
The development programme is aimed at equipping underemployed and unemployed youth with salon training to compete and perform in a formal working environment.
The Federal Reserve Bank of New York, in an October 2018 report, finds that many students are underemployed, filling jobs that can be done with a high school education.
There is a large pool of unemployed, underemployed and underpaid programmers looking for work in Eastern Europe’s challenging economies.
For example, the Ontario Society of Professional Engineersestimates that 33% of engineering graduates in Ontario are underemployed.
For the underemployed and unemployed young adult migration to urban areas is an alternative and in some cases it is not a choice but a necessity.
Her soft voice becomes a bit sombre when she talks about the social and financial pressure on the jobless and underemployed — people who may have families to support, or student debt looming over them.
It is targeted to persons who are low-skill, low-income, unemployed, underemployed or dislocated and require additional education to help qualify them for available jobs in business.
Large numbers of young people are underemployed and a stagnant economy remains dependent on the International Monetary Fund, which has imposed austerity measures that have sparked fresh protest.
Common combinations with underemployed
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- are underemployed 6×
- underemployed or 5×
- underemployed and 5×
- and underemployed 3×
- unemployed underemployed 3×
- or underemployed 3×
- underemployed workers 2×
- the underemployed 2×
- either underemployed 2×