working in a job where you cannot use all your skills or where there is not enough work for you to do → unemployed
This may mean that some workers are unemployed or that all workers are underemployed, or a combination of both.
by kakami January 7, 2011
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A perpetually unemployed person that milks the system by not actually looking for work while receving unemployment benefits to their maximum.

A deadbeat.
He's not even trying to find work, he's your average JOHN the UNDEREMPLOYED
by American Tax payer November 18, 2010
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