jobless

Definition of Jobless in English :

1. idle, jobless, out of work

not having a job

Example Sentences:
'idle carpenters'
'jobless transients'
'many people in the area were out of work'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Jobless

adjective

a.

unemployed

b.

(as collective noun; preceded by the)

the jobless

adjective

1.

without a job; unemployed

2.

having to do with the unemployed

adj.

1. Having no job.

2. Of or relating to those who have no jobs.

n. (used with a pl. verb)

Unemployed people considered as a group. Used with the.