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The phrase "army of unemployed" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a large group of people who are without jobs, often in discussions about economic issues or social concerns.
Example: "The recent economic downturn has led to an alarming increase in the army of unemployed, raising concerns about the future job market."
Alternatives: "mass of unemployed" or "wave of jobless individuals".
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Meanwhile China's army of unemployed will grow steadily bigger.
MOS Architects wrap space with an army of unemployed scale figures.
Equally important, both states have an army of unemployed or underemployed skilled manufacturing workers.
The other, fearful of the effects on California's army of unemployed, sought to find savings elsewhere.
Not, I hope, exclusively from the reserve army of unemployed generals with good Pentagon connections.
There is a growing army of unemployed in desperate need of work.
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Throughout Britain and most of Europe there are armies of unemployed, and acres of spare industrial and commercial capacity.
Shia mosques soak up the armies of unemployed with a promise to pay stipends to cover living expenses after three months of tuition.
In 1894 General Coxey of Ohio organized armies of unemployed to march on Washington and present petitions, only to see their leaders arrested for unlawfully walking on the grass of the Capitol.
He went to Japan as a sailor and saw much of the United States as a hobo riding freight trains and as a member of Kelly's industrial army (one of the many protest armies of unemployed born of the panic of 1893).
Combined with other shenanigans, this may produce an army of "hidden unemployed" of 1.4m, estimates the report, some 30% more than the number of officially unemployed.
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