the long-term unemployed

noun [U] ECONOMICS, HR

Definition

› the group of people who have not had a job for a long time, usually a year or more: The scheme provides retraining for the long-term unemployed.

(Definition of the long-term unemployed noun from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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