Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to unemploy
Participle: unemployed
Gerund: unemploying
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | unemploy |
| you | unemploy |
| he;she;it | unemploys |
| we | unemploy |
| you | unemploy |
| they | unemploy |
Perfect
| I | have unemployed |
| you | have unemployed |
| he;she;it | has unemployed |
| we | have unemployed |
| you | have unemployed |
| they | have unemployed |
Past
| I | unemployed |
| you | unemployed |
| he;she;it | unemployed |
| we | unemployed |
| you | unemployed |
| they | unemployed |
Pluperfect
| I | had unemployed |
| you | had unemployed |
| he;she;it | had unemployed |
| we | had unemployed |
| you | had unemployed |
| they | had unemployed |
Future
| I | will unemploy |
| you | will unemploy |
| he;she;it | will unemploy |
| we | will unemploy |
| you | will unemploy |
| they | will unemploy |
Future Perfect
| I | will have unemployed |
| you | will have unemployed |
| he;she;it | will have unemployed |
| we | will have unemployed |
| you | will have unemployed |
| they | will have unemployed |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | unemploy |
| you | unemploy |
| he;she;it | unemploy |
| we | unemploy |
| you | unemploy |
| they | unemploy |
Perfect
| I | have unemployed |
| you | have unemployed |
| he;she;it | have unemployed |
| we | have unemployed |
| you | have unemployed |
| they | have unemployed |
Imperfect
| I | unemployed |
| you | unemployed |
| he;she;it | unemployed |
| we | unemployed |
| you | unemployed |
| they | unemployed |
Pluperfect
| I | had unemployed |
| you | had unemployed |
| he;she;it | had unemployed |
| we | had unemployed |
| you | had unemployed |
| they | had unemployed |
Conditional
Present
| I | would unemploy |
| you | would unemploy |
| he;she;it | would unemploy |
| we | would unemploy |
| you | would unemploy |
| they | would unemploy |
Perfect
| I | would have unemployed |
| you | would have unemployed |
| he;she;it | would have unemployed |
| we | would have unemployed |
| you | would have unemployed |
| they | would have unemployed |
Imperative
| you | unemploy |
| we | Let's unemploy |
| you | unemploy |
Verbs conjugated like 'unemploy'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'unemploy'
employ,
reemploy,
deploy,
disemploy,
imploy,
malemploy,
misemploy,
preemploy,
re-employ,
unapply,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From un- + employ.
Sample Sentences
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In addition, new technologies are adopted which are less labour-using, thus unemploying workers. Over the postwar years, factors of this sort have contributed to a gradual upward drift in unemployment rates, even during expansions. [1978, Fred Caloren, Michel Chossudovsky, Paul Gingrich, Is the Canadian Economy Closing Down?, Black Rose Books Ltd., →ISBN, page 88:]
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It is, however, a reality that some developers are concerned that code generators and the like will "unemploy" them. [1987, Advance Papers, IEEE Computer Society Press:]
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"Put us all out of business, especially you, Cathy. One of the first things they'll edit out of the human genome is myopia, and diabetes and that — " "It'll unemploy you before it unemploys me, Professor," Cathy said with an impish smile. [1997, Tom Clancy, Executive Orders, Penguin, →ISBN, page 385:]
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Agriculture, which is arguably the biggest business in the world, is also the single most environmentally destructive human activity. It is increasingly technology based and “unemploys” people at a dramatic rate. [1999, Gregory Cajete, A People's Ecology: Explorations in Sustainable Living, Book Marketing Group, →ISBN, page 67:]
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“This is off the record. If one word of this appears in your tabloid, I will use all my wealth and connections to shut it down and unemploy you permanently.” [2009, Shayla Black, Seduce Me In Shadow, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 167:]
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Oh, good! Who's that guy? I bet he's a terror! What's he been, sabotaging Egypt's infrastructure? Or harassing Egyptian women on the streets? Or unemploying Egyptian people? What's he do? [2013, Jon Stewart, 'Morsi "Viva Hate"', The Daily Show 2013-04-01]
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Advocating any policy to raise wages that does not raise these bounds risks raising workers' compensation above their productivity; thus, unemploying the workers that the activists were trying to help. [2014, Benjamin Powell, Out of Poverty: Sweatshops in the Global Economy, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 25:]