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job-seeker

job-seeker is the alternative form of jobseeker.

Meaning of jobseeker

Noun

jobseeker (plural jobseekers)

  1. A person seeking employment.
    • It has taken people off the dole queue, and its online jobseekers board is updated daily.2021 September 8, “Network News: HS2 jobs boost - but skills shortage a concern”, in RAIL, number 939, page 16
  2. (Australia, UK) An unemployed person who must demonstrate active jobseeking efforts to qualify for government assistance.

Forms of job-seeker

pluraljob-seekers

Questions about job-seeker

What is job-seeker the alternative form of?
Job-seeker is the alternative form of jobseeker.

Words near job-seeker in the dictionary

  1. job-hops
  2. job-hunt
  3. job-hunted
  4. job-hunting
  5. job-hunts
  6. job-seeker
  7. job-seekers
  8. job-shadow
  9. job-shadowed
  10. job-shadowing
  11. job-shadows

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: job-seeker (page history and authors); jobseeker (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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