unemploy

present singular third person unemploys · participle present unemploying · participle past unemployed · past unemployed

1. transitiveTo cause someone to become unemployed.

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

   1987, Advance Papers, IEEE Computer Society Press

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   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.

   1978, Fred Caloren, Michel Chossudovsky, Paul Gingrich, Is the Canadian Economy Closing Down?, Black Rose Books Ltd., →ISBN, page 88

   "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.

   1997, Tom Clancy, Executive Orders, Penguin, →ISBN, page 385

   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.

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

   “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.”

   2009, Shayla Black, Seduce Me In Shadow, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 167

   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?

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