Definition for Unemployment:

• 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, and those least competent.

Synonyms for Unemployment:

• n.

  •idleness (noun)
  • slouch,
  • truancy,
  • inertia,
  • laze,
  • sluggishness,
  • trifling,
  • slothfulness,
  • torpor,
  • indolence,
  • leisure,
  • stupor,
  • droning,
  • sloth,
  • shiftlessness,
  • dilly-dallying,
  • Vegetating,
  • Loitering,
  • lethargy,
  • Lazing,
  • torpidity,
  • dawdling,
  • dormancy,
  • loafing.
  •inaction (noun)
  • inertness,
  • inactivity,
  • inoperativeness.
  •inoperativeness (noun)
  • in-operativeness,
  • in operativenesses,
  • in operativeness,
  • in-operativenesses.
  •layoff (noun)
  • discharge,
  • cutback,
  • respite.
  •leisure (noun)
  • convenience,
  • re-creations,
  • spare time,
  • recreation,
  • re-creation,
  • vacation,
  • repose,
  • rest,
  • time off,
  • requiescence,
  • time,
  • sabbatical,
  • range,
  • chance,
  • one's own sweet time,
  • spare moment,
  • opportunity,
  • scope,
  • holiday,
  • freedom,
  • liberty,
  • vacant hour,
  • idle hours,
  • spare moments,
  • leave of absence,
  • quiet,
  • retirement,
  • intermission,
  • recess,
  • ease,
  • relaxation,
  • pause.
  •recession (noun)
  • shakeout,
  • bottom-out,
  • collapse,
  • shakeouts,
  • decline.
  •state (noun)
  • unemployment.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • disuse.
  •work stoppage
  • strike conditions.
  •Other relevant words:
  • Inoccupation,
  • jobless,
  • redundancy,
  • furlough,
  • bloodbath,
  • stopping,
  • laziness,
  • dismission,
  • retired,
  • relief,
  • dole,
  • state,
  • unemployment rate,
  • aid,
  • benefit,
  • not working,
  • dismiss,
  • lay off,
  • unemploy,
  • redundant,
  • unemployed,
  • out of work.

Paraphrases for Unemployment:

• Equivalence

  • Noun, singular or mass
    joblessness.

• Reverse Entailment

  • Noun, singular or mass
    Underemployment.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    unemployed.
  • Proper noun, singular
    entitlements, allowances, data, weeks, unemployed.
  • Noun, plural
    redundancies, workers, individuals, weeks, unemployed.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    men, data, unemployed, dole, redundancy.
  • Verb, past tense
    lost, said.

• Exclusion

  • Proper noun, singular
    employment.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    employment.

Antonyms for Unemployment:

• n.

  • depression
    hopefulness, bulge, rise, convexity, happiness, protuberance, hope, calm, cheerfulness, increase, surge, success, recovery, encouragement.
  • idleness
    industry, activity, hustle, vigor, ambition, action, labor, work, liveliness, life, employment, energy, occupation, busyness, diligence.
  • layoff
    Hiring.
  • leisure
    incarceration, restraint, imprisonment, restriction, continuation, difficulty.
  • recession
    advance, inflation.

Unemployment Sentence Examples:

• The worst - unemployment remains far too high.

Hyponym for Unemployment:

• n.

  • state
    state.