unemployed

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Unemployment
anti-unemployment
be between jobs/marriages/boyfriends, girlfriends, etc.idiom
between
disability living allowance
displaced
executive session
frictional unemployment
idle
idleness
job
job centre
JSA
NEET
on the dole
Personal Independence Payment
pip
precarity
unemployment
vagabond
welfare

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Types of employment

jobless | American Dictionary

jobless
adjective[ not gradable ]
us/ˈdʒɑb·ləs/
without a job:
He’s been jobless for more than six months.

jobless | Business English

jobless
adjective
 ECONOMICSuk /ˈdʒɒbləs/us
if someone is jobless, they do not have a job:
Welfare reforms are exploring new initiatives for those who have been jobless for a year or more.
the jobless count/rate/totalThe jobless rate always rises in the summer months as new graduates enter the workforce.

joblessness

noun[ U ]
An increase in joblessness could see credit card debt rise out of control.
jobless
noun[ plural ]
 ECONOMICSuk /ˈdʒɒbləs/us
 the jobless
people who are unemployed:
There are various initiatives to help the long-term jobless back into work.

Examples of jobless

jobless
Finally, mutual obligation policies are likely to be expensive if they are to give jobless people a realistic chance of finding work.
Therefore, it is not jobless households who undertake the majority of self-help.
Jobless singles also run a proportionally higher risk of poverty.
They did what speakers often do with jobless words: they gave it something else to do.
Significant numbers of their graduates found themselves jobless, and many ex-students had to accept employment bearing little relationship to the levels of their qualifications.
Others signed on with corporations as industrial designers, or consultants, but the bulk of architects were simply jobless.
Jobless growth is not sustainable either in economics or in politics.
You may recall the phenomenon of" jobless growth" in the manufacturing sector discussed in the previous chapter.
Surely those displaced from their homes should not de facto be classified among the jobless?
Overall, there appears to be an emphasis on experimentation and innovation: governments are continually seeking new ways to improve the package of employment measures for the jobless.
Thousands of jobless and underpaid residents went hungry because they did not have the money to buy the food they could actually see growing in the fields.
Will it manage not to make millions of jobless the victims of the logic of numbers and international competition?
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Living in a lone-parent or jobless household further compounds the risk.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
Low-interest loans and development aid should be granted to develop these farms so as to organise training and education programmes for those who are left jobless, especially women.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
Is that not giving us a true and honest picture of the jobless rate?
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