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joblessness

joblessness noun: the state of being jobless or unemployed.

joblessness: the state of being jobless or unemployed
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Noun

joblessness (uncountable)

  1. The state of being jobless or unemployed.
  2. The phenomenon or level of unemployment in an economy.
    • Even if it were working perfectly, the stimulus would not come close to stemming the cascade of joblessness unleashed by this megarecession.2009 July 11, Bob Herbert, “The Human Equation”, in The New York Times

joblessness meaning in Kannada

joblessness in Kannada

ನಿರುದ್ಯೋಗ

Synonyms of joblessness

Origin of joblessness

From jobless + -ness.

Questions about joblessness

What does joblessness mean?
Joblessness means the state of being jobless or unemployed.
What is joblessness in Kannada?
Joblessness in Kannada is ನಿರುದ್ಯೋಗ. See Joblessness meaning in Kannada.
What part of speech is joblessness?
Joblessness is a noun.

Words near joblessness in the dictionary

  1. Jobin
  2. jobing
  3. Jobins
  4. jobless
  5. joblessly
  6. joblessness
  7. joblife
  8. joblike
  9. Jobling
  10. joblist
  11. joblists

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Adapted from Wiktionary: joblessness (page history and authors); joblessness (Kannada Wiktionary) (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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