English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
un- + employment
Pronunciation[edit]
unemployment (countable and uncountable, plural unemployments)
- The state of having no job; joblessness.
- Unemployment made Jack depressed.
- The phenomenon of joblessness in an economy.
- Unemployment has been considered a cause of crime.
- The level of joblessness in an economy, often measured as a percentage of the workforce.
- Unemployment was reported at 5.2% in May, up from 4.9% in April.
- (countable) A type of joblessness due to a particular economic mechanism.
- All unemployments, seasonal, frictional, cyclical, classical, whatever, mean that you're out of work.
- (countable) An instance or period of joblessness.
- Until then his life had consisted of low-paying jobs, numberous unemployments, and drug use.
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Terms derived from unemployment
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joblessness
- Afrikaans: werkloosheid
- Albanian: papunësi (sq) f
- Arabic: بِطَالَة f (biṭāla)
- Armenian: գործազրկություն (hy) (gorcazrkutʿyun)
- Azeri: işsizlik
- Belarusian: беспрацо́ўя n (bjespracóŭja)
- Bengali: দূর (dur), বেকারত্ব (bekarôtbô)
- Bulgarian: безрабо́тица (bg) f (bezrabótica)
- Burmese: အလုပ်လက်မဲ့ဖြစ်ခြင်း (a.luplakmai.hprachkrang:)
- Catalan: atur (ca) m, parada forçosa f, manca de treball f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 失業 (zh), 失业 (zh) (shīyè)
- Czech: nezaměstnanost (cs) f
- Danish: arbejdsløshed (da) c
- Dutch: werkloosheid (nl) f
- Esperanto: maldungo
- Estonian: tööpuudus
- Finnish: työttömyys (fi)
- French: chômage (fr) m
- Georgian: უმუშევრობა (umuševroba)
- German: Arbeitslosigkeit (de) f, Werklosigkeit f
- Greek: ανεργία (el) f (anergía)
- Hebrew: אַבְטָלָה (he) f (avtalá)
- Hindi: बेरोज़गारी f (berozgārī), बेकारी (hi) f (bekārī)
- Hungarian: munkanélküliség (hu)
- Icelandic: atvinnuleysi (is)
- Ido: neemployeso (io)
- Indonesian: pengangguran (id)
- Irish: dífhostaíocht
- Italian: disoccupazione (it) f
- Japanese: 失業 (ja) (しつぎょう, shitsugyō)
- Kazakh: жұмыссыздық (jumıssızdıq)
- Khmer: និកម្មភាព (km) (ni kam pheap), អកម្មភាព (ak kam pheap)
- Korean: 실업 (ko) (sireop) (失業 (ko))
- Kurdish:
- Sorani: بێ ئیشی, بێکاری (ku)
- Kyrgyz: жумушсуздук (ky) (cumuşsuzduk)
- Lao: ໄພຫວ່າງງານ (lo) (phai wāng ngān), ການວ່າງງານ (kān wāng ngān)
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