unemployment
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- noun
- /ˌʌnɪmˈplɔɪmənt/
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desempleo
- In the two countries hardest hit, Germany and the United States, unemployment was above 30 percent.
- unemployment rate
- high unemployment
- inflation and unemployment
No, it says higher unemployment, lower inflation.
- No, it says higher unemployment, lower inflation.
- It does not show people whose unemployment has run out.
- Every day that Romney wasn't talking about unemployment was a bad day for Mitt Romney.
- I believe that we have had great success in bringing black unemployment down to historic lows.
- Do you guys ever think about the, the mass unemployment that may come with with the robots?
- And it is the unemployment numbers are horrifying.
Examples
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We've got a serious unemployment problem on our hands.
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If this kept up, he was going to run out of unemployment compensation before he found anything.
Fiction book (1994) -
In a future with mass unemployment, young people are forced to sell blood.
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So not only do I get the time off, I can collect unemployment benefits, too.
Fiction book (2000) -
A rising rate of inflation may reduce unemployment; a high rate will not.
Academic text (1990) -
African American unemployment stands at the lowest rate ever recorded.
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At the time there was general unemployment and universal hunger.
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Similar violence has occurred in Spain, where unemployment stands at over 20 percent.
Academic text (2011) -
And we've just seen the biggest annual fall in unemployment since records began.
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The government is implementing new policies to reduce unemployment rates in the country.
Synonyms
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3.4
A situation when people do not have paid work
Not having a paid job, often when not looking for work
A time without a job or paid work
Antonyms
Compounds
- Specialized
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3.4
The percentage of people looking for work who do not have a job
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3.2
A line of people at a government office waiting to get job help or benefit money
How Employed
Surface Forms
Morphology
unemployment = employment (transparent) = un + employ + ment
Formed by adding the negative prefix 'un-' to 'employment', yielding the state of not having employment; the meaning follows standard composition.
Etymology
The word unemployment starts with un- meaning 'not' and uses employ meaning 'to give someone work'. So unemployment literally means 'not employed', which is why it means 'not having a paid job'.