- 1大材小用；工時不足（有工作，但用不上專長，或時數不夠）。經濟學用語，跟「低薪」underpaid 不同。
Having a job, but a job that you. Two situations get this word. One: your work is far below your training — an engineer driving a delivery van, a teacher with a master's degree working the counter at a convenience store. Two: you have the right kind of work but not enough of it — you want full-time hours and only get twelve hours a week. In both cases you are employed, so you do not show up in the unemployment numbers, and that is exactly why economists like this word: it names a problem the headline figures hide. It feels formal and is most at home in news reports, government , and serious conversation about jobs. Notice it is not the same as 'underpaid'. Underpaid is about the money; underemployed is about your hours and your skills going unused. A person can easily be both at once.
組成under- (not enough) + employed (given work, from 'employ'). So: put to work, but not to the extent you could be.
同家族的字
- unemployedsame 'employ'; un- = not at all, under- = not enough — the difference between the two prefixes in one pair
- employersame root 'employ' — the one who gives the work
- underfundedsame under- meaning 'not enough'
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
underemployedadj
- 1
Employed in a job that offers fewer work hours than desired.
- I found myself underemployed when the company downgraded me from full-time to part-time.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。