unemployed

[Laurence Horn]

On May 14, 2012, at 1:16 PM, Victor Steinbok wrote:

> I don't recall if this came up in earlier discussions of business
> euphemisms, but I just came across "unempolyed" == "in a transitional
> period".
>
Reminiscent of "transitional neighborhood", an older euphemism often applied to neighborhoods that never seem to actually transish.

LH

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