1 not employed; without a job; out of work:an unemployed secretary. 2  not currently in use:unemployed productive capacity. 3  not productively used:unemployed capital. ( 4 used with a pl. 5  v.) people who do not have jobs (usually prec. by the):programs to help the unemployed.
TIOGA, TX. TIOGA, TEXAS. Tioga, twenty miles southwest of Sherman on U.S. Highway 377 in the southwest corner of Grayson County, was founded in 1881 when the Texas and Pacific Railway reached the site. The crew used water from the local well and named the site Tioga, a New York Indian word said to mean swift current or fair and beautiful.
BEDIAS, TEXAS. Bedias is at the intersection of State Highway 90 and Farm roads 1696 and 2620, twenty-nine miles northeast of Navasota in northeast Grimes County. The community was named for the Bidai Indians, whose Caddo name means brushwood..