Unemployment remains stubbornly high at 14.9%, while youth joblessness, for those under age 24, is the worst in Europe at 30.6%.
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Joblessness
Synonyms for "joblessness" (11 found)
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Closest matches (3)
Noun(3 words)
Strong matches (3)
Noun(3 words)
jobless ratejobless statelabor underutilization
Related words (5)
Noun(5 words)
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More general
4 entrieseconomic conditioneconomic indicatoremployment statusmacroeconomic data
More specific
4 entriesjobless claimslong-term unemploymentshort-term unemploymentunemployment rate
Collocations
6 entrieshigh joblessnesslong-term joblessnessrising joblessnessstructural joblessnessunemployment rateyouth joblessness
Inflections
1 entriesDerivations
1 entriesSample sentences
3 total sentences available.
My father, born as a Roman Catholic in the Philippines, converted in North America to a Baptist Protestant under the guidance of other Filipinos. At the time, he was hexed by joblessness. He was often a businessman of different wares and foodstuffs. Despite calling himself a Christian, he sometimes forayed into Buddhism, practice of meditation, and ideas of reincarnation. He believed that when he would die, he would be reborn in a different body in a different world—a different "planet."
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Even if it were working perfectly, the stimulus would not come close to stemming the cascade of joblessness unleashed by this megarecession.
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