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What is the adjective for underemployed?

What's the adjective for underemployed? Here's the word you're looking for.

underemployed
  1. Employed in a job that offers one fewer work hours than one wishes.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. unemployed, jobless, idle, unwaged, workless, unoccupied, free, inactive, unengaged, out-of-work, between jobs, out of a job, out of work, without gainful employment, not working, on the bench, on the shelf, on the wallaby track, out of action, down and out, without work, disemployed, redundant, without paid employment, resting, without employment, at a loose end, at leisure, laid off, signing on, on the dole, disengaged, lazy, quiescent, bored, not busy, not tied up, with nothing to do, with time to kill, with time to spare, at loose ends, not at work, twiddling one's thumbs, kicking one's heels, wasted, underused, underutilised, underutilized, too good for, not put to good use … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “Men were either unattached to the labor market, unemployed, or underemployed in part-time service sector jobs.”
      “They're underemployed, and yet they make some of the best employees because they're grateful for the jobs.”
      “In Hong Kong, a person is defined as underemployed when he or she is hired to work less than 35 hours a week.”
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