UNEMPLOYMENT RATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does unemployment rate mean? 

• UNEMPLOYMENT RATE (noun)
  The noun UNEMPLOYMENT RATE has 1 sense:

1. the percentage of the work force that is unemployed at any given date

  Familiarity information: UNEMPLOYMENT RATE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNEMPLOYMENT RATE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The percentage of the work force that is unemployed at any given date

Classified under:

Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas

Hypernyms ("unemployment rate" is a kind of...):

pct; per centum; percent; percentage (a proportion in relation to a whole (which is usually the amount per hundred))