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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
jobless
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
rate
▪ Yet the jobless rate is falling sharply.
▪ The jobless rate is expected to be an average 8. 25 percent, up from an earlier forecast of 8 percent.
▪ In Milton Keynes and Oxfordshire the jobless rate is three times as high as 1990.
▪ The jobless rate for managers and professionals stands at about 2. 5 percent.
▪ The jobless rate, which averaged 9. 5 percent in 1995, is expected to be little changed in 1996.
▪ The jobless rate dropped to 8. 1 percent, the lowest in five years, the Bureau of Statistics today reported.
▪ The jobless rate a month ago was 8. 6 percent.
▪ Four years ago, when Ohio voted against incumbent Bush, the jobless rate in the state stood at 7 percent.
total
▪ The Liberal Democrats have stated they would cut the national jobless total by 400,000 within a year.
▪ Both Labour and the Liberal Democrats agree that radical measures are needed to stem the growing jobless total.
▪ This would save up to £3 billion at a time when the jobless total is soaring.
▪ Because they are now paid by the Department of Energy, they have been removed from the jobless totals.
▪ According to the Unemployment Unit's calculations including them takes the jobless total to more than three million.
▪ The unadjusted jobless total increased by 78,726 last month to 3,062,065, the highest since April 1987.
▪ Britain's jobless total will top three million around Christmas and carry on rising into the New Year.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ jobless workers
▪ Jobless youths are a major cause of concern.
▪ the jobless rate
▪ The bill would allow the jobless to collect 4 to 20 weeks of additional benefits.
▪ The factory closure will leave 3,000 workers jobless.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Both Labour and the Liberal Democrats agree that radical measures are needed to stem the growing jobless total.
▪ It would have meant seven hundred vacancies and work for the jobless.
▪ The jobless rate a month ago was 8. 6 percent.
▪ The jobless rate dropped to 8. 1 percent, the lowest in five years, the Bureau of Statistics today reported.
▪ The Liberal Democrats have stated they would cut the national jobless total by 400,000 within a year.
▪ When he left office, the jobless rate was a record 12 percent.
▪ Young women, fine; and no doubt plenty, in these jobless times, would volunteer.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
jobless

1905 (adj.), 1909 (n.), from job (n.) + -less. Related: Joblessness.

Wiktionary
jobless

a. Lacking employment.

WordNet
jobless

adj. not having a job; "idle carpenters"; "jobless transients"; "many people in the area were out of work" [syn: idle, out of work]

Usage examples of "jobless".

There came a Saturday when Jimmy, jobless and fundless, dreaded his return to the Indiana Avenue rooming-house, where he knew the landlady would be eagerly awaiting him, for he was a week in arrears in his room rent already, and had been warned he could expect no further credit.

Dumping grounds for the uneducated hoi polloi, the jobless peasants, the Asians, the blacks, the Dominicans, the fodder that keeps our opulent society humming, the little people who kill the chickens and disembowel the cattle and pick the cotton and work in the sweatshops and wash the dishes, scrub the toilets, mop floors, and buy all the cigarettes.

Then his walk lost its spring as he realized that Bertrand, jobless and talentless as he was, still had Christine.

But put yourself in my position: landless, moneyless, powerless, jobless, and cuckolded.

I ask him his opinion of a jobless faith, of a creed which dooms a man through life to a lean and plunderless integrity.

The majority of the spectators, grown men and late adolescents who wore the gaudy codpieces and indefinable look of the jobless, lost most of their enthusiasm for betting and brooded in sullen silence.

There were stories about increases in the jobless and homeless figures, a small shipment of crack intercepted in Chunnel, and massacres in Peru, Kowloon, Johannesburg, and Atlanta.

Omuro had gouged the poor, especially the nearly destitute jobless ex-servicemen during the depression years of the early ‘fifties.

Omuro had gouged the poor, especially the nearly destitute jobless ex-servicemen during the depression years of the early 'fifties.

A shark who had never made repairs, had partitioned rooms smaller and smaller, raised rents…Omuro had gouged the poor, especially the nearly destitute jobless ex-servicemen during the depression years of the early ’fifties.

So many jobless Helmsmen were idle on the streets of Avalon, and so few ships were still in commission, that only the well connected found jobs.

His finances are on an even keel: for a year after the charity collapsed leaving him jobless, he was harried by landladies as he moved from one cheap room to another.

Hastily made banners were raised on every side, demanding increased food rations, a resumption of state aid to the jobless, and an end to travel restrictions.

Those who are hungry, unskilled, jobless, homeless, or simply chronically unhappy, cannot be told to shut up.