unemployment
nounEtymology
From un- + employment.
Definitions
The state of having no job
The state of having no job; joblessness.
- Unemployment made Jack depressed.
- In 1928, an arrangement was made between the Government of Northern Ireland and the N.C.C. for the construction of a loop line as an unemployment scheme.
The phenomenon of joblessness in an economy.
- Unemployment has been considered a cause of crime.
The level of joblessness in an economy, often measured as a percentage of the workforce.
- Unemployment was reported at 5.2% in May, up from 4.9% in April.
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A type of joblessness due to a particular economic mechanism.
- All unemployments, seasonal, frictional, cyclical, classical, whatever, mean that you're out of work.
An instance or period of joblessness.
- Until then his life had consisted of low-paying jobs, numerous unemployments, and drug use.
The neighborhood
- synonymjoblessness
- synonymworklessness
- synonymunwork
- antonymemployment
- antonymreemployment
- neighborunemployed
- neighborclassical unemployment
- neighborcyclical unemployment
- neighbordemand-deficient unemployment
- neighborfrictional unemployment
- neighborfunemployment
- neighborMarxian unemployment
- neighborsearch unemployment
- neighborseasonal unemployment
- neighborstructural unemployment
- neighbortechnological unemployment
- neighborwait unemployment
Derived
antiunemployment, classical unemployment, cyclical unemployment, frictional unemployment, funemployment, Marxian unemployment, search unemployment, seasonal unemployment, structural unemployment, technological unemployment, unemployment benefit, unemployment benefits, unemployment insurance, unemployment rate, unemployment scheme, unemployment trap, wait unemployment
Vish — recursive loop
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA