employment rate
noun
1A rate levied to fund jobs created for the unemployed; compare rate (now historical and rare ).
2The number or proportion of employed people within a population, industry, etc.
Origin
Mid 19th century; earliest use found in The Caledonian Mercury.
- active matrix
- activeness
- active obedience
- active optics
- active-passive
- active roster
- active service
- active site
- active transport
- active voice
- activewear
- activin
- activism
- activist
- activistic
- activity
- activity for daily living
- activity of daily living
- activity ratio
- activity sampling
- activity series
- activity wheel
- activo-passive
- actless
- act of contrition