without a job although able to work失业的；未被雇用的◆How long have you been unemployed?你失业多久了？◆an unemployed builder/engineer失业建筑工人／工程师◆unemployed people/workers失业人员／工人SYNout of work (usuallythe unemployed) [] people who are unemployed失业人员；失业者◆a programme to get the long-term unemployed back to work促使长期失业者重新就业的计划◆The country now has four million unemployed.这个国家目前有四百万失业者。➡employed , self-employed