jobless
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1.9
- adjective
- /ˈdʒɑːbləs/
:
desempleado
- Jobless and uninsured, Zimmerman was diagnosed with throat cancer and died alone two years later.
- jobless and homeless
- jobless recovery
- jobless people
They, they want them joyless and jobless and voiceless.
- They, they want them joyless and jobless and voiceless.
- And and if the recession's bad and it's a jobless recession, it's really, really bad.
- I mean, yeah, I've seen sort of research on what young men like jobless young men do.
- I was just like, you know, training because I, I had time, I, I was jobless.
- To repeat, a weak institutional resource base is what distinguishes high jobless inner city neighborhoods from stable middle class and working class areas.
- So when we went back to the to measure and we finished to approve our project with the National Museum, both of us were jobless.
- People still can't pay their bills and we get jobless numbers revised every other day downward because we're not making up the losses.
- Or should I spend myself jobless and moneyless in trying to work out what the fuck is going wrong in our culture?
Examples
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I may be temporarily jobless, thanks to you.
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I'm 34, jobless, broke, totally alone, full of self-loathing and shame.
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Two months later, I was still jobless and running out of money.
Academic text (2003) -
I'm jobless but not for want of trying.
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In 1982, over 30 percent of the total Black labor force was jobless at some period during that year.
Academic text (2016) -
Things are improving, he says, noting a jobless friend recently found work.
Blog text (15) -
Now that I'm jobless, I can't afford to pay the mortgage.
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In developed countries, jobless rates soared into double digits, and governments around the world spent trillions of dollars to aid those affected.
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At Obama's inauguration, 7.1 percent of whites were jobless compared with 12.7 percent of blacks.
Blog text (6) -
With the economy struggling, many people are jobless and searching for new opportunities.
Synonyms
274
1.7
Without work and looking for a job
124
1.8
Without a job and trying to find one
68
4.0
Without a job because the company reduced staff or closed
Without a job or any paid position
Not having a paid job
Antonyms
How Employed
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Jobless is simply job + -less, where -less means 'without', the same idea you see in hopeless or homeless. So, jobless means 'without a job', which is why it describes someone who is unemployed.