jobseeker

«jobseeker» in Mova's school dictionary: an unemployed person looking for work, especially 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

phrase (noun: a jobseeker, jobseekers; also job seeker)

meaning for a pupil

1) (euphemism, official, UK) an unemployed person looking for work, especially one getting state benefits. tree →

2) (literal) anyone who is looking for a job, even if they have one. tree →

sense in the lessons

Used by governments, job centres and the news to sound more positive than «unemployed»; in the UK and Australia it is also the name of benefits (Jobseeker's Allowance, JobSeeker Payment). Register: official, neutral; UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand.

examples

• The job centre helps jobseekers write their CVs. tree →
• News: The number of jobseekers fell this month. tree →
• Dad is a jobseeker now and goes to interviews every week. tree →
• Website: Free advice for jobseekers. tree →
• Maths: If 300 of 1,000 jobseekers find work, 700 are still looking. tree →
• Chat: technically I'm a «jobseeker» lol tree →

note

It sounds active and hopeful; «unemployed» sounds harsher. In some countries it is the name of a benefit payment. Plain word: unemployed person.

In the corpora

• "Jobseeker" means an unemployed person (UK official language).

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «jobseeker» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.