Unemployed vs Disengaged - What's the difference?
unemployed | disengaged | Related terms |
Having no profession (despite being able and willing to work).
Having no use, not doing work
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(disengage)
Unconnected; detached.
(dated) Not (socially) engaged; available, free.
*1890 , (Oscar Wilde), The Picture of Dorian Gray , Vintage 2007, p. 40:
*:‘You must come and dine with us some night. Tuesday? Are you disengaged Tuesday?’
Unemployed is a related term of disengaged.
As adjectives the difference between unemployed and disengaged
is that unemployed is having no profession (despite being able and willing to work) while disengaged is unconnected; detached.As a noun unemployed
is unemployed people.As a verb disengaged is
(disengage).unemployed
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Adjective
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