From un- + employment.
unemployment (countable and uncountable, plural unemployments)
- The state of having no job; joblessness.
Unemployment made Jack depressed.
1944 May and June, R. H. W. Bruce, “The L.M.S.R. in Northern Ireland—I”, in Railway Magazine, page 147:In 1928, an arrangement was made between the Government of Northern Ireland and the N.C.C. for the construction of a loop line as an unemployment scheme.
- The phenomenon of joblessness in an economy.
Unemployment has been considered a cause of crime.
- The level of joblessness in an economy, often measured as a percentage of the workforce.
Unemployment was reported at 5.2% in May, up from 4.9% in April.
- (countable) A type of joblessness due to a particular economic mechanism.
All unemployments, seasonal, frictional, cyclical, classical, whatever, mean that you're out of work.
- (countable) An instance or period of joblessness.
Until then his life had consisted of low-paying jobs, numerous unemployments, and drug use.
joblessness
- Afrikaans: werkloosheid
- Albanian: papunësi (sq) f
- Arabic: بِطَالَة f (biṭāla), بَطَالَة f (baṭāla)
- South Levantine Arabic: بَطَالَة f (baṭāla)
- Armenian: գործազրկություն (hy) (gorcazrkutʻyun)
- Azerbaijani: işsizlik
- Belarusian: беспрацо́ўя n (bjespracóŭja)
- Bengali: দূর (bn) (dur), বেকারত্ব (bn) (bekarotto)
- Bulgarian: безрабо́тица (bg) f (bezrabótica)
- Burmese: အလုပ်လက်မဲ့ဖြစ်ခြင်း (a.luplakmai.hprachkrang:)
- Catalan: atur (ca) m, parada forçosa f, manca de treball f, desocupació f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 失業/失业 (zh) (shīyè)
- Czech: nezaměstnanost (cs) f
- Danish: arbejdsløshed (da) c
- Dutch: werkloosheid (nl) f
- Esperanto: maldungo
- Estonian: tööpuudus
- Faroese: arbeiðsloysi n
- Finnish: työttömyys (fi)
- French: chômage (fr) m
- Georgian: უმუშევრობა (umuševroba)
- German: Arbeitslosigkeit (de) f, Werklosigkeit f
- Greek: ανεργία (el) f (anergía)
- Hebrew: אַבְטָלָה (he) f (avtalá)
- Hindi: बेरोज़गारी f (berozgārī), बेकारी (hi) f (bekārī)
- Hungarian: munkanélküliség (hu)
- Icelandic: atvinnuleysi (is) m
- Ido: neemployeso (io)
- Indonesian: pengangguran (id)
- Irish: dífhostaíocht f
- Italian: disoccupazione (it) f, inoccupazione (it) f
- Japanese: 失業 (ja) (しつぎょう, shitsugyō)
- Kazakh: жұмыссыздық (jūmyssyzdyq)
- Khmer: និកម្មភាព (km) (nikammaʼphiəp), អកម្មភាព (ʼaʼkammaʼphiəp)
- Korean: 실업(失業) (ko) (sireop)
- Kurdish:
- Central Kurdish: بێ ئیشی (bê îşî), بێکاری (bêkarî)
- Kyrgyz: жумушсуздук (ky) (jumuşsuzduk)
- Lao: ໄພຫວ່າງງານ (lo) (phai wāng ngān), ການວ່າງງານ (kān wāng ngān)
- Latvian: bezdarbs m
- Lithuanian: nedarbas (lt) m
- Macedonian: неврабо́теност f (nevrabótenost)
- Malay: pengangguran
- Maltese: qgħad m
- Manx: mee-staartaght f, neufailleydys m
- Mongolian: ажилгүйдэл (mn) (ažilgüjdel)
- Norman: d'sempliai m (Jersey)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: arbeidsledighet (no) m
- Nynorsk: arbeidsløyse (nn) f
- Ossetian: ӕнӕкуыст (ænæk°yst)
- Persian: بیکاری (bi-kâri)
- Polish: bezrobocie (pl) n
- Portuguese: desemprego (pt) m
- Punjabi: ਬੇਕਾਰੀ m (bekārī)
- Romanian: șomaj (ro) n
- Russian: безрабо́тица (ru) f (bezrabótica)
- Scottish Gaelic: cion-cosnaidh m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: неза̀послено̄ст f
- Roman: nezàposlenōst (sh) f
- Slovak: nezamestnanosť f
- Slovene: brezposelnost f
- Spanish: desempleo (es) m, paro (es) m (Spain)
- Swedish: arbetslöshet (sv) c
- Tagalog: kawalang-hanapbuhay
- Tajik: бекорӣ (bekori)
- Tatar: эшсезлек (tt) (eşsezlek)
- Thai: การว่างงาน (th) (gaan-wâang-ngaan)
- Turkish: işsizlik (tr)
- Turkmen: işsizlik
- Ukrainian: безробі́ття (uk) n (bezrobíttja)
- Urdu: بیروزگاری f (berozgārī)
- Uyghur: ئىشسىزلىق (ishsizliq)
- Uzbek: ishsizlik (uz)
- Vietnamese: sự thất nghiệp (vi)
- Volapük: nenvob (vo)
- Welsh: diweithdra m, anghyflogaeth f
- Western Panjabi: بیکاری m (bī-kārī)
- Yiddish: אַרבעטסלאָזיקייט f (arbetslozikeyt)
- Zazaki: bêkariye f
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- "unemployment" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 325.