Read the excerpt from "Finding Unity in the Alabama Coal Mines.” The coal companies, in response, recruited workers from as far as New York’s Ellis Island, where newly arriving immigrants were desperate for jobs. What is the denotation of the word desperate ?

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Read the excerpt from "Finding Unity in the Alabama Coal Mines.” The coal companies, in response, recruited workers from as far as New York’s Ellis Island, where newly arriving immigrants were desperate for jobs. What is the denotation of the word desperate ?

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