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jobseeker, n.
Brit. |ˈdʒɒbsiːkə|, U.S. |ˈdʒɑbˌsikər|
Forms: also with capital initial.
[‹ job n.2 + seeker n.]
A person looking for employment; (in later Brit. use) spec. an unemployed person required to demonstrate efforts to find work in order to qualify for government benefits.
1852Literary World 31 Jan. 90/3 Spooner..fancied that the eye of every bystander—an army of job seekers, contract hunters, and the like..—was fixed only on him. 1896N.Y. Times (Electronic text) 19 Apr. (heading) Pair of costly job seekers. 1942C. Himes in Crisis Oct. 314/1 Here the job seekers with packed bags wait to be singled out for work. 1976Ann. Rep. Manpower Services Comm. 1975-76 ii. 12/1 Jobcentres are undoubtedly enjoying a great measure of success..in terms of their appeal to jobseekers. 1996Independent (Nexis) 6 Oct. To receive benefit, unemployed people..must become Jobseekers: they must actively and continually look for work, sign a detailed agreement to do so, and then prove that they are doing it. 2004Financial Times (Nexis) 26 Apr. 1 Government schemes designed to get the unemployed into work have shifted more than 160,000 jobseekers on to other benefits.
Compounds. Jobseeker's Allowance n. (also without apostrophe or with lower-case initials) Brit. a means-tested government benefit available to unemployed or low-income claimants, officially introduced in 1996.
1993Guardian 2 Dec. i. 16/5 The unemployed are now ‘jobseekers’, entitled to *Jobseeker's Allowance provided they first sign a Jobseeker's Agreement. 2004Sunday Mirror (Nexis) 18 July 28 He claimed more than {pstlg}20,000 in Jobseekers Allowance and other benefits before he was caught. |