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unemployments

unemployments is the plural of unemployment.

Meaning of unemployment

Noun

unemployment (countable and uncountable, plural unemployments)

  1. The state of having no job; joblessness.
    • Unemployment made Jack depressed.
  2. The phenomenon of joblessness in an economy.
    • Unemployment has been considered a cause of crime.
  3. The level of joblessness in an economy, often measured as a percentage of the workforce.
    • Unemployment was reported at 5.2% in May, up from 4.9% in April.
  4. (countable) A type of joblessness due to a particular economic mechanism.
    • All unemployments, seasonal, frictional, cyclical, classical, whatever, mean that you're out of work.
  5. (countable) An instance or period of joblessness.
    • Until then his life had consisted of low-paying jobs, numerous unemployments, and drug use.

Questions about unemployments

What is unemployments the plural of?
Unemployments is the plural of unemployment.

Words near unemployments in the dictionary

  1. unemployment insurances
  2. unemployment rate
  3. unemployment rates
  4. unemployment trap
  5. unemployment traps
  6. unemployments
  7. unemploys
  8. unempoisoned
  9. unempowered
  10. unempowering
  11. unemptiable

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unemployments (page history and authors); unemployment (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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