English
Etymology
un- + employment
Pronunciation
Noun
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.
Synonyms
Antonyms
Derived terms
Translations
joblessness
Afrikaans: werkloosheid
Albanian: papunësi (sq) f
Arabic: بِطَالَة f ( biṭāla ) , بَطَالَة f ( baṭāla )
Armenian: գործազրկություն (hy) ( gorcazrkutʻyun )
Azerbaijani: 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 / 失业 (zh) ( shīyè ) , 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 ( jūmyssyzdyq )
Khmer: និកម្មភាព (km) ( nikammaʼphiəp ) , អកម្មភាព ( ʼaʼkammaʼphiəp )
Korean: 실업 (ko) ( sireop ) (失業 (ko) )
Kurdish:
Sorani: Lua error in Module:parameters at line 95 : Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "ku" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E . , Lua error in Module:parameters at line 95 : Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "ku" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E .
Kyrgyz: жумушсуздук (ky) ( jumuşsuzduk )
Lao: ໄພຫວ່າງງານ (lo) ( phai wāng ngān ) , ການວ່າງງານ ( kān wāng ngān )
(deprecated template usage ) {{trans-mid }}
Latvian: bezdarbs m
Lithuanian: nedarbas (lt) m
Macedonian: неврабо́теност f ( nevrabótenost )
Malay: pengangguran
Maltese: qgħad m
Mongolian: ажилгүйдэл (mn) ( ažilgüjdel )
Norman: d'sempliai m ( Jersey )
Norwegian:
Bokmål: arbeidsledighet (no) m
Nynorsk: arbeidsløyse (nn) f
Ossetian: ӕнӕкуыст ( ænæk°yst )
Persian: بیکاری ( bi-kâri )
Polish: bezrobocie (pl) n
Portuguese: desemprego (pt) m
Romanian: șomaj (ro) n
Russian: безрабо́тица (ru) f ( bezrabótica )
Scottish Gaelic: cion-cosnaidh m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: незапосленост f
Roman: nezaposlenost (sh) f
Slovak: nezamestnanosť f
Slovene: brezposelnost f
Spanish: desempleo (es) m , paro (es) ( Spain )
Swedish: arbetslöshet (sv)
Tagalog: kawalang-hanapbuhay
Tajik: бекорӣ ( bekorī )
Tatar: эшсезлек (tt) ( eşsezlek )
Thai: การว่างงาน (th) ( gaan-wâang-ngaan )
Turkish: işsizlik (tr)
Turkmen: işsizlik
Ukrainian: безробі́ття (uk) n ( bezrobíttja )
Urdu: بیکاری f ( bekārī )
Uzbek: ishsizlik (uz)
Vietnamese: sự thất nghiệp (vi)
Volapük: nenvob (vo)
Yiddish: אַרבעטסלאָזיקייט f ( arbetslozikeyt )
Zazaki: bêkariye f
Further reading
"unemployment" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 325.