joblessness

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joblessness

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  1. uncountable The state of being jobless or unemployed.
  2. uncountable 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.

Similar: unemployment, worklessness, unwork

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noun unemployment

DeutschArbeitslosigkeit
Italianodisoccupazione

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@misc{joblessness_2026,
  title = {joblessness},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/joblessness},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}