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unemployment

[uhn-em-ploi-muhnt] / ˌʌn ɛmˈplɔɪ mənt /






NOUN
layoff
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Last month, the average length of unemployment climbed to a multiyear high.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 10, 2026

Yet the teenage unemployment rate—the share of teens looking for work who can’t find it—is lower today, at 14%, than the 16% registered in 1979.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 9, 2026

The tournament also created jobs for the country which had 25% unemployment.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 8, 2026

Yet the job market that fresh graduates enter is no longer as rosy as it once was, with high youth unemployment a significant concern.

From Barron's • Jun. 7, 2026

Countless refugees returned from India, greeted, we learned, by unemployment and the threat of famine.

From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri




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