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jobpocalypse

noun

Etymology

From job + -pocalypse. The "caused by artificial intelligence" sense may have popularized by the Financial Times newspaper in late 2025.

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

Definitions

  1. A period of high unemployment or job losses.

    • When the nation first went through high rates of unemployment recently, it wasn’t just a job crisis; it was a jobpocalypse or a hiring-pocalypse.
    • Mayhem up ahead? Cosmo's got you, girl. The Ultimate Job-pocalypse Survival Guide

  2. The widespread technological unemployment expected to be caused by advances in artificial…

    The widespread technological unemployment expected to be caused by advances in artificial intelligence.

    • But if a generative AI-driven "jobpocalypse" for computer science graduates doesn't seem to explain the graduate male malaise, what does?

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for jobpocalypse. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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