unemployment
/ˌʌn·ɪmˈplɔɪ·mənt/ n [U]Definition
› social studies the situation of not having a job that provides money, or the number of people in this situation at any time: high/low unemployment The unemployment rate was 4 percent in October.
(Definition of unemployment n from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary
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