unemployment: meaning and words from its letters
12 letters · 21 letter points · starts with U · ends with T
Meaning of unemployment
noun
- countable, uncountable
The state of having no job; joblessness.
Example: Unemployment made Jack depressed.
- countable, uncountable
The phenomenon of joblessness in an economy.
Example: Unemployment has been considered a cause of crime.
- countable, uncountable
The level of joblessness in an economy, often measured as a percentage of the workforce.
Example: Unemployment was reported at 5.2% in May, up from 4.9% in April.
- countable
A type of joblessness due to a particular economic mechanism.
Example: All unemployments, seasonal, frictional, cyclical, classical, whatever, mean that you're out of work.
Listed forms: unemployments.
Source: Wiktionary — unemployment.
Adapted from Wiktionary contributors via Kaikki.org. Selected senses and forms; quotations omitted. Definition text is CC BY-SA 4.0.
Is unemployment in our word lists?
| Word list | Status |
|---|---|
| American English | Found |
| British English | Found |
| Extended English | Found |
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Letter-value score of unemployment
U(1) + N(1) + E(1) + M(3) + P(3) + L(1) + O(1) + Y(4) + M(3) + E(1) + N(1) + T(1) = 21 points.
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Anagrams of unemployment
0 other standard-list words use exactly these letters, including repeated letters.
No other single-word anagram was found in our standard list.
Shorter words from unemployment
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