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Definition of "unemployable" []

  • Not able to find or hold a job: unemployable people. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "unemployable" in a sentence
  • "The AFL great will return to football as an expert for Channel Ten, two years after a Miami arrest saw him labelled unemployable, the Herald Sun reports."
  • "Too many people are becoming long-term unemployable, and what we need to do is try and move them back into the labor force."
  • "But it keeps bankers off the streets, so we're helping the long-term unemployable ."