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Answer for the clue "Lack of paid work ", 12 letters:
unemployment

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Word definitions for unemployment in dictionaries

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES crime/economic/unemployment etc statistics ▪ The economic statistics tell a grim story. debt/unemployment etc trap ▪ people caught in the unemployment trap tackle unemployment ▪ The government announced a new initiative ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1887, from un- (1) "not" + employment .

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. the state of being unemployed or not having a job; "unemployment is a serious social evil"; "the rate of unemployment is an indicator of the health of an economy" [ant: employment ]

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The state of having no job ; joblessness. 2 The phenomenon of joblessness in an economy. 3 The level of joblessness in an economy, often measured as a percentage of the workforce. 4 (context countable English) A type of joblessness due to a particular ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Unemployment occurs when people who are without work are actively seeking paid work . The unemployment rate is a measure of the prevalence of unemployment and it is calculated as a percentage by dividing the number of unemployed individuals by all individuals ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Unemployment \Un`em*ploy"ment\, n. Quality or state of being not employed; -- used esp. in economics, of the condition of various social classes when temporarily thrown out of employment, as those engaged for short periods, those whose trade is decaying, ...

Usage examples of unemployment.

With their disintegration, cutthroat capitalism, petty-stateism, senseless competition, and canonized selfishness, they have created want and insecurity, hunger, malnutrition, unemployment, despair and suicide.

Much of this unemployment was due, not to any mismanagement by the Diefenbaker government, but to structural weaknesses in the economy.

The rabid determination of partizan politicians not to allow the United States to enter into any agreement with the rest of the world to stop war, the outbreaks of violence among the criminal classes, the determined efforts of the liquor interests to nullify the constitutional Prohibition amendment, the depression in business, the increase of unemployment, the strenuous effort of the agitators to make trouble between this country and Great Britain on one side and Japan on the other, all may be grouped with this pathetic spectacle of respectable women turned shoplifters as an indication of that other moral slump from idealism.

State Unemployment Insurance Office against Unemployment on a voluntary basis, and to secure, through the State subvention, much better terms than it would be possible for them to obtain at the present time.

Little gang-nuclei came into existence, therefore, wherever unassimilated elements of the population were congested and humiliated or wherever intelligent men festered in unemployment and need.

The whole conception of the militarized continental state, with its secret police, its censored literature and its conscript labour, is utterly different from that of the loose maritime democracy, with its slums and unemployment, its strikes and party politics.

Iraq had an unemployment problem before the Gulf War, which was one of the predicaments Saddam believed he could escape from by invading Kuwait.

General Jourge Videla, head of the army, proclaimed a new military junta to oust Isabelita Peron, citing the chronic inflation and massive unemployment as the reason for their intervention.

America reached full employment while simultaneously nullifying inflation, making obsolete the renowned Phillips Curve of the Keynesian school of economics, which graphically demonstrated that there was a necessary trade-off between unemployment and inflation, i.

At events in Nashua and Keene, New Hampshire, I said I wanted to convert the program of unemployment benefits into a reemployment system with a broader range of better-designed training programs.

The cryptanalysts sometimes even got paid for not solving a cipher: if a key was stolen from an embassy, the codebreakers would get a kind of unemployment compensation because they had no opportunity to win their bonus.

In the meantime our restless civic pillars ought to turn their attention to the elements that produce the criminals whom we so fearthe unemployment, poverty, teenaged pregnancies, broken homes and dropout rate.

It was portrayed as the cause because it was easier to blame an evil drug and come out guns blazing against the dealers than it was to handle the real causes: unemployment, poverty, underfunding, cuts in welfare and so on.

The Watergate spectacle was a shock, but the fact of a millionaire President paying less income tax than most construction workers while gasoline costs a dollar in Brooklyn and the threat of mass unemployment by spring tends to personalize Mr.

GDP had doubled, unemployment was falling, basic services had been restored throughout the country, an independent media was thriving, and public elections had been held for all levels of government.