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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

• UNEMPLOYMENT (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

The state of being unemployed or not having a job

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Context examples:

unemployment is a serious social evil / 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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