waiting for employment

waiting for employment
   involuntarily unemployed
   A Chinese Communist usage:
    He told me he had plenty of time since he was 'waiting for employment' — an expression used by the People's Government for 'unemployment' which was supposed not to exist in a socialist state. (Cheng, 1984)

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