full employment

English

Noun

full employment (uncountable)

1. (economics, politics) A policy goal state in which all those wanting employment at the prevailing wages can find it.
   • 1979, James H. Gapinski with Charles Edward Rockwood, Abba Ptachya Lerner, Essays in post-Keynesian inflation‎, page 272:

     ... not at the time recognized that this was a basic departure from the Keynesian view in which both of these full employments were regarded as identical.

Translations

a policy goal state in which all those wanting employment at the prevailing wages can find it

• French: plein-emploi (fr) m
• Irish: lánfhostaíocht f
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• Swedish: full sysselsättning c