unemployment
US: /ˌənɪmˈpɫɔɪmənt/
UK: /ʌnɛmplˈɔɪmənt/
UK: /ʌnɛmplˈɔɪmənt/
English Vietnamese dictionary
unemployment /'ʌnim'plɔimənt/
- danh từ
- sự thất nghiệp; nạn thấp nghiệp
- khối lượng công việc chưa làm
Advanced English dictionary
+ noun [U]
1 the fact of a number of people not having a job; the number of people without a job: an area of high unemployment + rising / falling rates of unemployment + measures to help reduce / tackle unemployment + a rise in both inflation and unemployment
2 the state of not having a job: Thousands of young people are facing long-term unemployment. + a study of male / female / black unemployment
Compare: EMPLOYMENT
Collocation dictionary
ADJ.
considerable, high, huge, large-scale, mass, massive, serious, severe, widespread | low | rising | falling | long-term, permanent | short-term, temporary | recurrent, seasonal | structural | graduate, school-leaver, youth | rural, urban
QUANT.
level, rate
VERB + UNEMPLOYMENT
be faced with, face | cause, create | alleviate, bring down, cut, keep down, reduce | increase | combat, tackle
UNEMPLOYMENT + VERB
hit sb
Unemployment has hit unskilled workers in particular.
| climb, double, increase, rise, soar
Unemployment climbed above two million.
| decline, fall | average sth, stand at sth
Unemployment averaged 15% across the country.
| reach sth, touch sth
Unemployment touched 30%.
UNEMPLOYMENT + NOUN
benefit, money, pay, payments, relief | compensation, cover, insurance | data, figures, levels, numbers, percentage, rate, statistics, total | crisis, problem | blackspot
This former mining town is now an unemployment blackspot.
| trap
The unemployment trap exists when an unemployed person on benefit would be worse off in a low-paid job.
PREP.
~ among
Unemployment among graduates is falling steadily.
PHRASES
a period of unemployment, a rise/an increase/a fall in unemployment
Concise English dictionary
noun
+the state of being unemployed or not having a job
