Country Dictionary

A fork of Rural Dictionary

underemployed

working in a job where you cannot use all your skills or where there is not enough work for you to do → unemployed

This may mean that some workers are unemployed or that all workers are underemployed, or a combination of both.

by kakami January 07, 2011

JOHN the UNDEREMPLOYED

A perpetually unemployed person that milks the system by not actually looking for work while receving unemployment benefits to their maximum. A deadbeat.

He's not even trying to find work, he's your average JOHN the UNDEREMPLOYED

by American Tax payer November 18, 2010