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unemployment
noun as in depression
noun as in idleness
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noun as in inactivity
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noun as in inertness
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noun as in inoperativeness
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- dawdling
- dilly-dallying
- dormancy
- droning
- goof-off time
- hibernation
- idleness
- inactivity
- indolence
- inertia
- inertness
- joblessness
- laze
- lazing
- leisure
- lethargy
- loafing
- loitering
- otiosity
- own sweet time
- pottering
- shiftlessness
- sloth
- slothfulness
- slouch
- slowness
- sluggishness
- stagnation
- stupor
- time on one's hands
- time to burn
- time to kill
- time-wasting
- torpidity
- torpor
- trifling
- truancy
- vegetating
noun as in layoff
noun as in leisure
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noun as in recession
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Example Sentences
Unlike U.S. citizens or green card holders, undocumented farmworkers do not qualify for federal unemployment or disaster benefits.
In practice, the effects of raising the minimum wage on inflation and on unemployment are complex and hotly debated.
Trump will take office in an economy that has strengthened in recent months, with a decline in interest rates, unemployment numbers and inflation.
The economy couldn’t have been better for the Democrats: four percent unemployment, three percent GDP growth, two percent inflation and a stock market that couldn’t quit setting records.
More than $5 trillion goes each year to Social Security, Medicare, federal employee retirement, unemployment compensation and the like.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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