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out of a job

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out of a job

Having lost one's job; unemployed.
After the management automated the factory, the machinists were out of a job.

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True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made. Franklin D. Roosevelt

No one every listened themselves out of a job. Calvin Coolidge

If you were out of a job and your kid needed diapers and your husband just left you, you would be so confused. Barbara Steele

Being out of a job can erode people's confidence and their sense of possibility; and employers, often unfairly, tend to take long-term unemployment as a signal that something is wrong. James Surowiecki

As a cancer doctor, I'm looking forward to being out of a job. Daniel Kraft

If people feel 4-4-2 is the way forward in international football, they'll have to wait until I'm out of a job. Glenn Hoddle

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