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jobless

/job-lis/US // ˈdʒɒb lɪs //UK // (ˈdʒɒblɪs) //

无业,失业,无工作,没有工作

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : without a job.
    • : noting or pertaining to people without jobs, especially to those who are seeking employment.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    Usually the jobless .

    • : unemployed people collectively, especially those who are seeking a job.

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Examples

  • The number of new jobless claims has come down since the earliest days of the pandemic but remains at an extremely high level week in and week out.

  • While the $300 payments are down from $600 per week provided by the CARES Act through July 2020, it’s still much needed aid to help jobless Americans make ends meet.

  • Those aid package have funneled hundreds of billions to small businesses, jobless Americans and others hurt by the coronavirus pandemic.

  • If the BLS were to include those 4 million jobless Americans who have yet to return to the workforce in its unemployment rate, the “real” jobless rate would sit at 9% for November.

  • That’s down from the $600 weekly payment that the CARES Act sent jobless Americans through late July.

  • Last year, it let an unemployment extension for the long-term jobless expire during the holidays.

  • Emergency benefits have just expired for some 1.3 million jobless Americans, putting a huge dent in our economy.

  • With the help of GM and Ford and jobless claims at a five-year low, the S&P hit a record high of over 1,700 points.

  • Starting in early 2010, this ceased to be a jobless recovery.

  • Today, however, Dixon is in transition from being jobless and homeless.

  • Half a thousand jobless workers, armed and reckless, marched toward the docks.

  • Now half a thousand jobless workers, armed and reckless, marched toward the docks.

  • He was more and more afraid of her as the despair of the jobless man in the hard city settled down on him.

  • What she was ashamed of now was the home it must take her to and the jobless husband waiting for her there.

  • The day before a jobless soldier threw himself beneath a train and his last words were, 'Over the top and the best of luck.'