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What does unemployment mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word unemployment? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. The state of having no job; joblessness.
  2. The phenomenon of joblessness in an economy.
  3. The level of joblessness in an economy, often measured as a percentage of the workforce.
  4. (countable) A type of joblessness due to a particular economic mechanism.
  5. (countable) An instance or period of joblessness.
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The various accommodations are not an immediate effect of unemployment but are gradual and incremental responses over time.
The document envisages the creation of 240 000 jobs to permanently reduce unemployment to below 10 per cent.
She has been out of a job for more than a year and her unemployment benefits have run out.
Although unemployment is still rising, this is only because job creation is not keeping pace with the population of working age.
It has unemployment levels at three times the national average and truancy rates run five times above average measures.
The lowest U.S. peacetime unemployment rate since 1957 has ignited a talent war raging through corporate America.

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