chômeur
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French chômeur. Coined by Colette Grinevald
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ʃəʊˈmɜː/
Noun
[edit]chômeur (plural chômeurs)
- (linguistics, Relational Grammar) An actant that has been 'demoted' to a less salient syntactic position, such as the agent of a passive clause.
Anagrams
[edit]French
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[edit]Noun
[edit]chômeur m (plural chômeurs, feminine chômeuse)
- an unemployed person
- Il est chômeur ― He is unemployed.
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[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “chômeur”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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