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# unemployment

«unemployment» in Mova's school dictionary: **when people who want a job and can work cannot find 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

noun (unemployment, uncountable)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Unemployment is when people who want a job and can work cannot find one. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unemployment/#m1)

2) Unemployment is also the number or share of people in a country who have no job but are looking for one. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unemployment/#m2)

3) (US, Canada) «Unemployment» can mean money from the government for people who lost their job, as in «he's on unemployment». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unemployment/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In citizenship, money and history lessons, unemployment shows how jobs affect families and countries; when many factories close, unemployment goes up. News reports give unemployment as a percentage. In family stories, a parent's unemployment can bring worry about money and changes at home, and children can help by being kind and patient. Phrases: «unemployment rate», «high unemployment», «unemployment benefit», «on unemployment».

### examples

- Unemployment went up when the steelworks closed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unemployment/#x1)
- The unemployment rate fell to four per cent. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unemployment/#x2)
- Dad was out of work for months, and unemployment made things tight at home. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unemployment/#x3)
- The government helps people during unemployment with benefits. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unemployment/#x4)
- In the old story, unemployment meant long queues for food. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unemployment/#x5)
- Training new skills can help people out of unemployment. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unemployment/#x6)
- The news said unemployment is lower in the south. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unemployment/#x7)

### note

Uncountable: say «unemployment is high», not «unemployments». «Unemployed» is the adjective (an unemployed worker). In maths, the unemployment rate = the number of unemployed people divided by everyone who could work, times 100, as a percentage. People who are retired or at school are not counted as unemployed.

### In the corpora

- [Unemployment is not having a paid job when you want one; redundancy is losing your job because it is no longer needed.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/35-unemployment-when-jobs-are-lost/5/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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