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UNEMPLOYMENT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does unemployment mean?
• UNEMPLOYMENT (noun)
The noun UNEMPLOYMENT has 1 sense:
1. the state of being unemployed or not having a job
Familiarity information: UNEMPLOYMENT used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The state of being unemployed or not having a job
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Context example:
the rate of unemployment is an indicator of the health of an economy
Hypernyms ("unemployment" is a kind of...):
state (the way something is with respect to its main attributes)
Antonym:
employment (the state of being employed or having a job)
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