underemployed

adj

Etymology

From under- + employed.

Definitions

  1. Employed in a job that offers fewer work hours than desired.

    • I found myself underemployed when the company downgraded me from full-time to part-time.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for underemployed. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA