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unemployment Definition

un·em·ploy·ment (-plo̵i′mənt)

noun

  1. the state of being unemployed; lack of employment
  2. the number or percentage of persons in the normal labor force who are out of work

  • unenclosed
  • unencumbered
  • unendearing
  • unending
  • unendorsed
  • unendowed
  • unendurable
  • unenforceable
  • unengaged
  • unengaging
  • un-English
  • unenjoyable
  • unenlightened
  • unenriched
  • unenrolled
  • unenslaved
  • unentangled
  • unentered
  • unenterprising
  • unentertaining
  • unenthralled
  • unenthusiastic
  • unentitled
  • unenviable
  • unenvious
unemployment Synonyms

unemployment

n.

work stoppage, lay-off, strike conditions; see stopping.

unemployment Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • tackle: New Deal was launched earlier in the day ( 6 April 1998 ) across Northern Ireland in order to tackle long-term unemployment.
  • rise: Consumer confidence is falling against a backdrop of high consumer debt and fear of rising unemployment.
  • relieve: Article 150 The State shall extensively establish financial institutions for the common people, with a view to relieving unemployment.

Adjective modifier

  • involuntary: Some of the difference results from involuntary unemployment or involuntary early retirement, reflecting labor market distortions.
  • long-term: Long-term youth unemployment is down by some 80 per cent.
  • mass: There was mass unemployment at the end of the Napoleonic wars, in 1815.
  • frictional: Frictional Unemployment This type of unemployment reflects job turnover in the labor market.
  • structural: Simply raising the level of aggregate demand in the economy will do little to alleviate the problem of structural unemployment.
  • widespread: Nor would he release the Belgian prisoners, as they supplied him with a useful labor force, whereas Belgium already had widespread unemployment.

Modifies a noun

  • differential: We find that religion accounts for about half of the unemployment differential in our two samples.
  • rate: Poland, for example, has an unemployment rate of 20 percent, despite its wealth of skilled workers.
  • rate-current: Moreover similar means the unemployment rate-current expanded section eligibility.
  • benefit: The last year has seen the number of people claiming unemployment benefits fall to its lowest level for nearly thirty years.
  • statistic: Youth unemployment statistics proved twelve young people were chasing every available job in the area.
  • figure: New Data about the PACT Area The latest local unemployment figures for the PACT area are shown below.

Noun used with modifier

  • ilo: ILO unemployment is now at its lowest level since records began in 1992.
  • claimant: The rate of claimant count unemployment remained at 5.2 percent.
  • youth: The rate of youth unemployment is 35 % compared to national average of 15 % .
  • equilibrium: Any unemployment is equilibrium unemployment and arises from labor market imperfections.
  • eligibility: Medicaid eligibility unemployment for a similar policy we have had.
unemployment Quotes

All industrial efficiency consists in trying to do with eight men what we have hitherto been doing with ten men. It consists in creating unemployment.

—Robinson, (Edward) Austin George

Hitlerhadalready foundout how tocureunemployment before Keynes had finished explaining why it occurred.

—Robinson, Edwin Arlington

If theTreasury were to fill old bottles with banknotes, bury themat suitable depthsindisusedcoalmineswhich are then filled up to the surface with town rubbish, and leave it to private enterprise on well-tried principles of laissez-faire to dig the notes up again†there need be no more unemployment and, with the help of the repercussions, thereal income of the community, and its capital wealth also, would probably becomea good deal greater than it actually is. It would, indeed, be more sensible to build houses and the like; but as there are political and practical difficulties in the way of this, the above would be better than nothing.

—Keynes (of Tilton),John Maynard, 1st Baron

This would, at a stroke, reducetherise in prices, increase productivity, and reduce unemployment.

—Hearst,William Randolph

Six percent unemployment only looks good from the vantage point of the other 94 percent.

—Passell, Peter