Unemployment

What do we mean by unemployment?

The state of being unemployed, especially involuntarily. noun

The percentage or number of people who are involuntarily unemployed. noun

Unemployment insurance. noun

The condition of being unemployed; the state of being unused. noun

Quality or state of being not employed; -- used esp. in economics, of the condition of various social classes when temporarily thrown out of employment, as those engaged for short periods, those whose trade is decaying, and those least competent. noun

The state of having no job; joblessness. noun

The phenomenon of joblessness in an economy. noun

The level of joblessness in an economy, often measured as a percentage of the workforce. noun

A type of joblessness due to a particular economic mechanism. noun

An instance or period of joblessness. noun

The state of being unemployed or not having a job noun

The state of having no job; joblessness.

The phenomenon of joblessness in an economy.

The level of joblessness in an economy, often measured as a percentage of the workforce.

A type of joblessness due to a particular economic mechanism.

An instance or period of joblessness.

The #1 job for the Lazies in urban america. The job requirements are to be able to sit at home on your ass, smoke crack, and eat government cheese while waiting for your check Urban Dictionary

The company that lays you off but gives you 2 months notice so that you have to come in day in and day out, completely unmotivated and depressed, before you're utterly jobless. You're employed, and yet, unemployed, like how vampires are undead. Who is responsible for this wretched state of being? Your Unemployer. Urban Dictionary

A symptom of the failure and insanity of modern society. If there is something to do, then how can there be unemployment? There is work to do - we go do it. It's that simple. And if there is nothing to do, can't the rich creeps just leave us alone? No, they can't. Because unemployment was fabricated by the rich cocksuckers in order to keep wages down and keep the lower classes scared and busy. Because if you're afraid you might lose your job - which allows you to purchase tenancy/ food/ clothes from the rich - you keep your mouth shut and you keep working no matter how dumb the job is. And if the wage is shit you keep quiet because at least you're getting some dough with which to pay rent/ alimony/ student loans/ dinner. Meanwhile we see the proliferation of computerization, robotization, mechanization, miniaturization, and other -zations - meaning there is less and less useful stuff left to do. Most work out there is bullshit. (At least) 70% of us can stop working today (everyone except the people doing real work, who incidentally are the worst paid - the farmers, the janitors, the maintenance workers, the construction workers, etc), and life will go on just fine. Except everyone will have more leisure and less worry. But we can't have that. Oh no. The rich are just keeping us busy so we fail to notice how they are getting away with murder. Unemployment is as dumb as planned obsolescence. The future generations will look at us with horror and derision. Urban Dictionary

The act of setting ones self free, by taking your hard earned tax dollars back from the State. i.e. Boobs, Dubes & Tubes Urban Dictionary

In the UK we have a saying. It goes like this. Whats green and gets you fucked? Your Giro! This sums up enemployment exquisitely - go down to the: job centre/ dole office / welfare - pick up your govermental contribution for food and rent, walk out of the building and directly into the nearest pub and spend every last penny of it on alcohol and drugs. Urban Dictionary

The word black people hear the most. Urban Dictionary

Going to work and relating to people through work is something a lot of people dont take for granted when they become unemployed. You can survive without work or a social life, but theres a sense that something is missing if people try to do it for an extended time. Urban Dictionary

A group of hoodlums that trap or scam to make bank Urban Dictionary

When one feels guilty for doing nothing all day because they are unemployed. Urban Dictionary

This is what you have when you neglect shaving for a while, due to being unemployed. Urban Dictionary

Words that are spelled similarly to unemployment:
unemployment, funemployment, employment, subemployment, reemployment.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word unemployment:
unemployed, sector, rate, zoning, inflation, employed, businesses, recession, benefits, wages, insurance, economic, compensation, rates, wage, gdp, expenditures, emigration, employment, primary, risen, involved, poverty, workforce, jobs, cent, deficit, governed, unrest, economically, benefit, percent, people, economy, welfare, depression, employer, lowest, relief, labor, labour, disability, municipal, municipality, statistics, job, taxes, migration, structural, spending, crisis, corruption, decreased, income, curve, stood, debt, compared, worker, growth, rose, rising, tax, policies, percentage, roads, industries, decline, fallen, rise, crime, social, assistance, low, budget, immigration, demand, increased.

Words that rhyme with unemployment:
employment, deployment, enjoyment, redeployment, cloyment, underemployment, ployment, full employment, reemployment.

Adjectives that are often used to describe unemployment:
high, mass, structural, term, widespread, involuntary, technological, chronic, higher, low, urban, massive, seasonal, cyclical, frictional, more, open, disguised, total, rural, male, scale, much, lower, persistent, severe, heavy, serious, black, temporary, substantial, considerable, female, hidden, average, voluntary, permanent, less, regional, industrial, actual, european, overall, domestic, partial, teenage, keynesian, extensive, periodic, consequent, excessive, aggregate, registered, official, acute, classical, vast, longterm, graduate, war, transitional, prolonged, continued, adult, deficient, time, excess, postwar, inflation, digit, rampant, concealed, recurrent.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective unemployment:
insurance, compensation, rate, benefits, rates, bill, effects, benefit, relief, inflation, figures, taxes, policy, spells, flows, payments, commission, percent, vacancy, committee, estimates, levels, consequences, persistence, source, data, tax, statistics, assistance, dynamics, the, change, index, fund, united, funds, act, claims, legislation, related, relationships, indemnity, ratio, board, choices, drops, report, administration, societies, great, pool, grants, iii, expenditure, tradeoff.

Words that sound like unemployment:
unemployment, underemployment, employment, gun emplacement, uncompliant, implement, unemployment rate, unemployment line, unemployed, supplement.