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How to use jobless in a sentence

11 example sentences · adjective

Jobless means lacking employment. Example: “The government announced a new initiative to help the jobless.”

Examples of jobless by meaning

adjectiveLacking employment.

  • a jobless man
  • The government announced a new initiative to help the jobless.
  • The report was slightly gloomier than in June, when unemployment rates eased in more than half of all U.S. states for a third straight month and only five states reported jobless rate increases.2010 August 20, Blake Ellis, “Unemployment rates rise in 14 states”, in CNN Money, archived from the original on 04 Oct 2024

More sentences with jobless

  • Most of the men are retired, jobless, or have otherwise temporarily absented themselves from the workplace.From the entry absent
  • You dumped this funny, clever, successful accountant for this jobless human bin fire?2023, Nathan Bryon, Tom Melia, directed by Raine Allen-Miller, Rye Lane, spoken by Yas (Vivian Oparah). From the entry bin fire
  • Who were they planning on creaming first in a jobless, growthless recovery?2009 July 13, Armine Yalnizyan, “Harper impatient to resume his assault on government”, in Toronto Star. From the entry growthless
  • I remembered the army of jobless and ragged men who rode grimy boxcars across our country during the Depression.1971, Lyndon Johnson, The Vantage Point, Holt, Reinhart & Winston, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 104. From the entry remember
  • Early Friday morning, she was one of dozens of jobless workers who crowded into a federally funded labor resource center in downtown Los Angeles.2013 April 6, Don Lee, Shan Li, “Jobs report paints a dreary picture”, in Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times…. From the entry Marchella
  • While overall the jobless rate remained fairly low at 4.3% in August — the latest data available — those out of work are lingering in unemployment for longer.2025 November 17, Michael Sasso, “The Job Market Is Heating Up — for Jobs That People Usually Don't Want. Applications are up and turnover…. From the entry Great Resignation
  • Those residing in ghetto communities were particularly ill equipped to adapt to the seismic changes taking place in the U.S. economy; they were left isolated and jobless.2012, Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow, →ISBN, page 50. From the entry ghetto
  • She is jobless, a burden to her mother, caught up in child-rearing and spends the rest of her time crying over the ‘kangalang’ who abandoned her and her child.1995, Guyana Review, Georgetown, Guyana: Cosmopolitan Communications Corporation, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 31. From the entry kangalang

Meaning of jobless

  1. adjective Lacking employment.
  2. adjective Having too much time on one's hands; having nothing better to do.

Full definition of jobless

Questions about jobless in a sentence

How do you use jobless in a sentence?
Jobless is used as an adjective. For example: “The government announced a new initiative to help the jobless.”
What is a short sentence with jobless?
“a jobless man”
What does jobless mean?
Jobless means lacking employment.

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