unemployment
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- 1The situation of not having a paid job, especially when you want one.
Like having an empty calendar where workdays used to be.
After the factory closed, he faced months of unemployment.
Long periods of unemployment can be hard on a family.
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- 2How many people in a country are without jobs, often shown as a percentage.
Like a thermometer reading that shows how many people cannot find work.
Unemployment rose to nearly ten percent during the crisis.
The government wants to bring unemployment down next year.
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- 3The problem of people in a country not being able to find work.
Like a drought that affects a whole region, not just one farm.
Many governments try hard to fight unemployment.
Unemployment hurts both workers and the wider economy.
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- 4A time when a person is without a job.
Like a rainy stretch that falls between two sunny days.
She had a short unemployment between her two jobs.
After a long unemployment, he finally found work again.
- 5A type of joblessness that comes from one particular way the economy works.
Like different reasons a car won't start: a dead battery is not the same as an empty tank.
Frictional unemployment happens while people move between jobs.
Some unemployment comes from new machines replacing workers.
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Origin
From un- plus employment, meaning not having a job.