English

Verb

unemploy ‎(third-person singular simple present unemploys, present participle unemploying, simple past and past participle unemployed)

1. (transitive) To cause someone to become unemployed.
   • 1978, Fred Caloren, Michel Chossudovsky, Paul Gingrich, Is the Canadian Economy Closing Down?, Black Rose Books Ltd. (ISBN 9780919618817), page 88

     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.

   • 1987, Advance Papers, IEEE Computer Society Press

     It is, however, a reality that some developers are concerned that code generators and the like will "unemploy" them.

   • 1997, Tom Clancy, Executive Orders, Penguin (ISBN 9781101002353), page 385

     "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.

   • 1999, Gregory Cajete, A People's Ecology: Explorations in Sustainable Living, Book Marketing Group (ISBN 9781574160284), page 67

     Agriculture, which is arguably the biggest business in the world, is also the single most environmentally destructive human activity. It is increasingly technology based and “unemploys” people at a dramatic rate.

   • 2009, Shayla Black, Seduce Me In Shadow, Simon and Schuster (ISBN 9781416578628), page 167

     “This is off the record. If one word of this appears in your tabloid, I will use all my wealth and connections to shut it down and unemploy you permanently.”

   • 2013, Jon Stewart, 'Morsi "Viva Hate"', The Daily Show 2013-04-01

     Oh, good! Who's that guy? I bet he's a terror! What's he been, sabotaging Egypt's infrastructure? Or harassing Egyptian women on the streets? Or unemploying Egyptian people? What's he do?

   • 2014, Benjamin Powell, Out of Poverty: Sweatshops in the Global Economy, Cambridge University Press (ISBN 9781107029903), page 25

     Advocating any policy to raise wages that does not raise these bounds risks raising workers' compensation above their productivity; thus, unemploying the workers that the activists were trying to help.

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