joblessness
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- noun
- /ˈdʒɑːbləsnəs/
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desempleo
- Many people in the city are facing joblessness due to the economic downturn.
- rates of joblessness
- high rates of joblessness
- joblessness and poverty
A recession that leads to layoffs, joblessness, and more bankruptcies.
- A recession that leads to layoffs, joblessness, and more bankruptcies.
- If you look at all the statistics, college graduation rates, suicide rates, joblessness, women are now ascendant.
Examples
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So you have optical inflation higher and then a weaker economy, which means joblessness goes up.
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Already, too many of our economy's difficulties, including worrisome trends in youth joblessness and long-term unemployment, risk becoming structurally embedded.
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And it comes at a time when joblessness is through the roof.
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The US may have more debt, poverty, and joblessness, lower domestic energy supplies, and fewer natural resources.
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Failure to grow at this pace would lead to increased joblessness and possibly domestic turmoil.
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The ticket to ending joblessness is replacing the job destroyer with the job creator.
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After the prosperity of the late 1920s, the widening epidemic of joblessness sent shock waves through the nation.
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Too many of them grow up in ramshackle neighborhoods choked with poverty, joblessness, and crime.
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Long-term joblessness has become more common in Finland, and redundancy now also affects white-collar occupations.
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In his book When Work Disappears, Harvard sociologist William Julius Wilson argued that joblessness was the source of most of the behavioral problems encountered in inner-city areas.
Academic text (2003)
Synonyms
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A time when people do not have paid jobs and look for work
Not having a paid job, often when not looking for work
A time without a job or paid work
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Morphology
Etymology
The word joblessness comes from two simple parts: job meaning 'a piece of work or paid task' and the ending -less meaning 'without', so joblessness is being 'without a job'.