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joblessness

noun

Etymology

From jobless + -ness.

  1. derived from choppe — “piece, bargain”
  2. derived from jobben — “to jab, thrust, peck”
  3. inherited from gobbe — “mass, lump”
  4. formed as jobless — “job + -less”
  5. formed as joblessness — “jobless + -ness”

Definitions

  1. The state of being jobless or unemployed.

  2. The phenomenon or level of unemployment in an economy.

    • Even if it were working perfectly, the stimulus would not come close to stemming the cascade of joblessness unleashed by this megarecession.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA