Etymology

chômeur

Today it means: An actant that has been 'demoted' to a less salient syntactic position, such as the agent of a passive clause. Full definition →

French chômeur
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  1. French · borrowed fromchômeur
  2. English todaychômeur

Borrowed from French chômeur. Coined by Colette Grinevald.

Words from the same roots

Frenchchômeur all →

tishoumaren

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