unemploy

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   To cause someone to become unemployed.

   • 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.

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