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
One in four workers was jobless, and 20,000 farms were being foreclosed monthly.
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Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 6 May 2025
On the data front, PMI data for the services sector from both S&P Global and ISM are expected Monday, followed by import and export data and weekly initial jobless claims later in the week.
—Sophie Kiderlin, CNBC, 5 May 2025
Soft data like consumer confidence survey, polling and jobless claims show signs of economic weakness.
—Alain Sherter, CBS News, 2 May 2025
To be sure, many dire warning signs on the economy have been from surveys of businesses or from leading economists, while measures of the labor market remain healthier, with the jobless rate in March only ticking slightly higher to 4.2%.
—Jason Lange, USA Today, 25 Apr. 2025
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Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 6 May 2025
On the data front, PMI data for the services sector from both S&P Global and ISM are expected Monday, followed by import and export data and weekly initial jobless claims later in the week.
—Sophie Kiderlin, CNBC, 5 May 2025
Soft data like consumer confidence survey, polling and jobless claims show signs of economic weakness.
—Alain Sherter, CBS News, 2 May 2025
To be sure, many dire warning signs on the economy have been from surveys of businesses or from leading economists, while measures of the labor market remain healthier, with the jobless rate in March only ticking slightly higher to 4.2%.
—Jason Lange, USA Today, 25 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for jobless
unemployed
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Venues of all sizes have been shuttered and many music industry members are now unemployed, from band members, talent agents, stage crew staff and audio engineers to tour bus drivers, box office employees, security guards and backstage caterers.—
George Varga,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
30 May 2025
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And more female workers — 28.6% — are functionally unemployed than male workers, whose true rate of unemployment stands at 20%, according to LISEP.—
Aimee Picchi,
CBS News,
26 May 2025
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“Jobless.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/jobless. Accessed 4 Jun. 2025.
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