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unemployment /ʌnɪmˈplɔɪm(ə)nt / /ʌnɛmˈplɔɪm(ə)nt/noun [mass noun]1The state of being unemployed: the serious level of unemployment among school-leavers...- Drug abuse, unemployment and prejudice are among the many difficulties facing our communities.
- As a society, we have chosen to have a certain level of unemployment in exchange for low inflation.
- The low level of unemployment has also been a major contributor to growth.
1.1The number or proportion of unemployed people: a time of high unemployment...- Critics perceived it as a desperate government policy to hide the soaring unemployment figures of the day.
- So all this economic growth stuff and unemployment figures may be wide of the real mark.
- It would lower unemployment figures because more people would be able to do it.
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