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What does underemployed mean?

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Adjective
  1. Employed in a job that offers one fewer work hours than one wishes.
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Some migrants reported that they were underemployed and did not work at the level for which training had prepared them.
In Hong Kong, a person is defined as underemployed when he or she is hired to work less than 35 hours a week.
Mr. Berry's closing submission goes some way towards recognizing that Larry is now underemployed.
A third of the population is unemployed, and many more people are underemployed and undereducated, he says.
I suppose it would remain popular at least until all the investment capital leaves the province, leaving an underemployed workforce.
He worries, if the high-paying jobs move offshore, that could leave him and other workers permanently underemployed.

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