underemployment
B2CEFR level
50/100Rarity: uncommon
TechnicalRegister
The situation of workers employed below their skill level or for fewer hours than they want.
Headline figures hid widespread underemployment, with graduates stacking shelves part-time.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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