disemployment
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
23
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
4
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The state of being disemployed, or deprived of employment (as sometimes distinguished from unemployment).
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "this glut of leisure and disemployment"
- "So an AI-enabled future may have all sorts of economic dislocations — not just unemployment, but disemployment — the obsolescence of a lot of professions. But the marginal cost of goods and services will essentially go to zero, providing enough wealth that societies can provide a universal basic income for all. What you’re predicting makes me think of a 1930 piece by John Maynard Keynes called “The economic possibilities of our grandchildren.”"
Etymology
From dis- + employment.