malemployment

English

Etymology

From mal- +‎ employment.

Noun

malemployment (uncountable)

  1. The condition of being malemployed, which means employed in a job for which one is overqualified or overeducated, usually a job that does not pay as much as one wants or expects.

For example, a person who graduated with a Bachelor's degree who becomes a bartender would be considered to be malemployed.

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