chômeur

Borrowed from French chômeur. Coined by Colette Grinevald.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ʃəʊˈmɜː/

chômeur (plural chômeurs)

1. (linguistics, Relational Grammar) An actant that has been 'demoted' to a less salient syntactic position, such as the agent of a passive clause.

• moucher

From chômer +‎ -eur.

• IPA^(key): /ʃo.mœʁ/

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chômeur m (plural chômeurs, feminine chômeuse)

1. an unemployed person

   Synonym: sans-emploi

   Il est chômeur ― He is unemployed.

• pouding chômeur

• chômage

• → Romanian: șomer
• → Tamasheq: ⵜⵉⵛⵓⵎⴰⵔⴻⵏ (tišumaren)

• “chômeur”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• moucher