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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: the state of being unemployed or not having a job; "unemployment is a serious social evil"; "the rate of unemployment is an indicator of the health of an economy" [ant: employ, employment]

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 1888 1. the state of being unemployed ; involuntary idleness of workers; also the rate of such unemployment 2. unemployment compensation

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. 1 the state of being unemployed. 2 the condition or extent of this in a country or region etc. (the North has higher unemployment). Phrases and idioms: unemployment benefit a payment made by the State or (in the US) a trade union to an unemployed person.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Unemployment Un`em*ploy"ment, n. Quality or state of being not employed; -- used esp. in economics, of the condition of various social classes when temporarily thrown out of employment, as those engaged for short periods, those whose trade is decaying, and those least competent.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English. Unemployment is the fact that people who want jobs cannot get them. ...an area that had the highest unemployment rate in western Europe... Unemployment is so damaging both to individuals and to communities.