as in unemployed
having no job
having been jobless for six months, he was starting to get seriously discouraged
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Recent Examples of jobless
Stocks ended lower yesterday as investors’ concerns about Trump’s trade war outweighed a report showing new jobless claims held steady last week and an upward revision of fourth-quarter GDP.
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Josh Fellman, Quartz, 28 Mar. 2025
The economic uncertainty has hit the young especially hard, with the urban jobless rate for 16 to 24-year-olds, excluding students, hovering around 16 percent.
—Patrick Brzeski, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Mar. 2025
The jobless rate stayed under 4% for 27 months, from February 2022 to April 2024, despite the Federal Reserve's attempt to cool down the economy with rate hikes.
—Emily Peck, Axios, 7 Apr. 2025
The jobless rate nonetheless increased to 4.2% from 4.1%, as projected.
—Josh Fellman, Quartz, 4 Apr. 2025
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Josh Fellman, Quartz, 28 Mar. 2025
The economic uncertainty has hit the young especially hard, with the urban jobless rate for 16 to 24-year-olds, excluding students, hovering around 16 percent.
—Patrick Brzeski, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Mar. 2025
The jobless rate stayed under 4% for 27 months, from February 2022 to April 2024, despite the Federal Reserve's attempt to cool down the economy with rate hikes.
—Emily Peck, Axios, 7 Apr. 2025
The jobless rate nonetheless increased to 4.2% from 4.1%, as projected.
—Josh Fellman, Quartz, 4 Apr. 2025
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The firms surveyed 1,480 workers who were unemployed at some point from 2019 to 2024 and the results were provided exclusively to USA TODAY. Need a break?—
Paul Davidson,
USA Today,
23 Apr. 2025
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Over 40 percent of young people in Gabon are unemployed.—
Saikou Jammeh,
New York Times,
12 Apr. 2025
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“Jobless.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/jobless. Accessed 2 May. 2025.
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