unemployment
part of speech
noun (unemployment, uncountable)
meaning for a pupil
1) Unemployment is when people who want a job and can work cannot find one. tree →
2) Unemployment is also the number or share of people in a country who have no job but are looking for one. tree →
3) (US, Canada) «Unemployment» can mean money from the government for people who lost their job, as in «he's on unemployment». tree →
sense in the lessons
In citizenship, money and history lessons, unemployment shows how jobs affect families and countries; when many factories close, unemployment goes up. News reports give unemployment as a percentage. In family stories, a parent's unemployment can bring worry about money and changes at home, and children can help by being kind and patient. Phrases: «unemployment rate», «high unemployment», «unemployment benefit», «on unemployment».
examples
- Unemployment went up when the steelworks closed. tree →
- The unemployment rate fell to four per cent. tree →
- Dad was out of work for months, and unemployment made things tight at home. tree →
- The government helps people during unemployment with benefits. tree →
- In the old story, unemployment meant long queues for food. tree →
- Training new skills can help people out of unemployment. tree →
- The news said unemployment is lower in the south. tree →
note
Uncountable: say «unemployment is high», not «unemployments». «Unemployed» is the adjective (an unemployed worker). In maths, the unemployment rate = the number of unemployed people divided by everyone who could work, times 100, as a percentage. People who are retired or at school are not counted as unemployed.
In the corpora
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «unemployment» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.