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# unemployment

noun (unemployment, uncountable)

«unemployment» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. Unemployment is when people who want a job and can work cannot find one. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unemployment/#m1)
2. Unemployment is also the number or share of people in a country who have no job but are looking for one. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unemployment/#m2)
3. (US, Canada) «Unemployment» can mean money from the government for people who lost their job, as in «he's on unemployment». [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unemployment/#m3)

### 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 →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unemployment/#x1)
- The unemployment rate fell to four per cent. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unemployment/#x2)
- Dad was out of work for months, and unemployment made things tight at home. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unemployment/#x3)
- The government helps people during unemployment with benefits. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unemployment/#x4)
- In the old story, unemployment meant long queues for food. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unemployment/#x5)
- Training new skills can help people out of unemployment. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unemployment/#x6)
- The news said unemployment is lower in the south. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unemployment/#x7)

### 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.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «unemployment» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unemployment/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«unemployment» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/unemployment.html) on Mova free.