Meaning of unemploy | Babel Free

Definitions

To cause someone to become unemployed.

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Examples

“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.”

“It is, however, a reality that some developers are concerned that code generators and the like⟳ will "unemploy" them.”

“"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⟳.”

“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.”

““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.””

“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?”

“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⟳.”

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