Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The state of being unemployed, especially involuntarily.
- noun The percentage or number of people who are involuntarily unemployed.
- noun Unemployment insurance.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The condition of being unemployed; the state of being unused.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Quality or state of being not employed; -- used esp. in economics, of the condition of various social classes when temporarily thrown out of employment, as those engaged for short periods, those whose trade is decaying, and those least competent.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The state of having no job; joblessness.
- noun The phenomenon of joblessness in an economy.
- noun The level of joblessness in an economy, often measured as a percentage of the
workforce . - noun countable A type of joblessness due to a particular economic mechanism.
- noun countable An instance or period of joblessness.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the state of being unemployed or not having a job
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Examples
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The Nation's Unemployed Follow the change in unemployment from the beginning of the recession.
Jobless Rate Declines in 23 States Phil Izzo 2010
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While the absolute level of unemployment does have an impact on elections, the 1934 midterms show that change in unemployment is the more important number.
Matthew Yglesias » It’s Time to Not Get Financial Reform Done 2010
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Interestingly if you actually read the latest Neumark & Wascher paper on the minimum wage -- rather then just the very misleading abstract -- you see that their latest research shows that the only group to suffer a rise in unemployment from a rise in the minimum wage are black teenager males.
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Bernanke asserted that the post-recession rise in unemployment is mostly due to "the sharp contraction in economic activity that occurred in the wake of the financial crisis and the continuing shortfall of aggregate demand since then."
The Fed Debates: Is Unemployment Structural Or Cyclical? Prajakta Bhide 2010
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The increase in unemployment is due to the auto makers and their many thousands of related industrial jobs that depend on the auto industry returning to fiscal stability.
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The recent rise in unemployment is particularly worrisome, Goldman indicated.
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The recent rise in unemployment is particularly worrisome, Goldman indicated.
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Stemming the rise in unemployment is another key goal.
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Stemming the rise in unemployment is another key goal.
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In Great Britain unemployment is most acute in those industries which were swollen to meet the demands of war, such, for example, as engineering, which catered for munitions, and shipbuilding -- in that group, and also in the group of industries most closely connected with the export trade, in cotton, textiles and shipping itself.
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"You take my life when you do take the means whereby I live." - William Shakespeare
July 30, 2008