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unemployment compensation definition

unemployment compensation

payment, as by a state government from social security funds, of a certain amount of money to a qualified unemployed person, usually at regular intervals and over a fixed period of time

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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