| 词汇 | underemployed |
| 释义 | underemployed adjective uk /ˌʌn.dər.ɪmˈplɔɪd/ us /ˌʌn.dɚ.ɪmˈplɔɪd/ not having enough work to do, or having a job that does not use all your skills工作量不够的;学非所用的 Bore and bored banal banally be (stuck) in a grooveidiom be watching the clockidiom bend blah boil bore bore the ass off someoneidiom languid languidly listless listlessly listlessness rut tired uncompelling underwhelm underwhelmed undynamic underemployed | Business Englishunderemployed adjective uk /ˌʌndərɪmˈplɔɪd/ us /-dɚ-/ not having enough work to do, working only part time, or working in a job that does not use all your skills: Many immigrant families with health-care backgrounds are underemployed. There are many underemployed workers willing to change jobs to get ahead. Examples of underemployedunderemployed One would imagine them to be havens for the multitudes of unemployed and underemployed youths, many of them rural migrants. However, the pastor attributes the problems of unemployed and underemployed church members, or those without the necessary immigration papers, to witches and evil forces. The only group of people who were underemployed were those who were conscientious objectors to military service. In the mainly arable areas, the pool of underemployed agricultural labourers, the potential 'social criminals', was far higher, although potential targets were scarcer. The informal sector has always been a ' haven ' where the un\\underemployed have been able to retreat in the absence of paid work elsewhere. Meanwhile, the ranks of underemployed city dwellers continue to grow and seek alternative income sources through street vending. This can be done by dividing the number of voluntarily underemployed by the working population minus the number of involuntarily underemployed. Furthermore, the land frontier has long served as the employer of last resort for underemployed, unskilled labor. Words are a valuable, yet underemployed source of information that can help us better understand the design process and thereby provide better support for the designer. And, finally, when husbands are unemployed or underemployed, a high proportion of women's earnings are spent on household expenses instead of being accumulated and used as investment and working capital. There is nothing profligate in that, because it is sound policy that the borrowing requirements should be high when the economy is underemployed. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Too many of the line infantry see themselves as underemployed and undervalued. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 But if we expand faster—and we are still not doing so—in the underemployed areas, it is quite possible that we might achieve even 6 percent. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The speech puts emphasis on the under-employed regions, when the whole problem of the regional imbalance affects both the over-employed and the underemployed regions. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 This department can hardly be described as underemployed at present. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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