The city masses at the outset were extensively unemployed.

When not needed or wanted they are pushed into the ranks of the partially or wholly unemployed.

He was seldom unemployed at meals; but at such times employed himself in contriving or making drawings of whatever occurred to his fertile fancy.

He is, we will suppose, temporarily unemployed through the production of a glut of coal, and he goes about the world trying to see the fine and noble collective achievements that justify the devotion of his whole life to humble toil.

The ablest of the Marian generals was, it has been seen, virtually unemployed in the Civil War.