unemployment

unemployment

synonyms, antonyms, definitions, examples & translations of unemployment in English

English Online Dictionary. What means unemployment‎? What does unemployment mean?

English

Etymology

un- +‎ employment

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʌn.ɪmˈplɔɪ.mənt/

Noun

unemployment (countable and uncountable, plural unemployments)

  1. The state of having no job; joblessness.
  2. The phenomenon of joblessness in an economy.
  3. The level of joblessness in an economy, often measured as a percentage of the workforce.
  4. (countable) A type of joblessness due to a particular economic mechanism.
  5. (countable) An instance or period of joblessness.

Synonyms

  • joblessness, worklessness, unwork

Antonyms

  • employment, reemployment

Hyponyms

Coordinate terms

  • disemployment, misemployment

Derived terms

Related terms

  • unemployed

Translations

Further reading

  • "unemployment" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 325.

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