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# jobseeker

«jobseeker» in Mova's school dictionary: **an unemployed person looking for work, especially one…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

phrase (noun: a jobseeker, jobseekers; also job seeker)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (euphemism, official, UK) an unemployed person looking for work, especially one getting state benefits. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jobseeker/#m1)

2) (literal) anyone who is looking for a job, even if they have one. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jobseeker/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

Used by governments, job centres and the news to sound more positive than «unemployed»; in the UK and Australia it is also the name of benefits (Jobseeker's Allowance, JobSeeker Payment). Register: official, neutral; UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand.

### examples

- The job centre helps jobseekers write their CVs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jobseeker/#x1)
- News: The number of jobseekers fell this month. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jobseeker/#x2)
- Dad is a jobseeker now and goes to interviews every week. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jobseeker/#x3)
- Website: Free advice for jobseekers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jobseeker/#x4)
- Maths: If 300 of 1,000 jobseekers find work, 700 are still looking. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jobseeker/#x5)
- Chat: technically I'm a «jobseeker» lol [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jobseeker/#x6)

### note

It sounds active and hopeful; «unemployed» sounds harsher. In some countries it is the name of a benefit payment. Plain word: unemployed person.

### In the corpora

- ["Jobseeker" means an unemployed person (UK official language).](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/22-jobs-shops-and-estate-agents/8/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «jobseeker» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jobseeker/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.