Collocations for "unemployment"
Common phrases and expressions where native English speakers use the word "unemployment" in context.
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unemployment
ⓘMost examples are given in US English. We have labeled exceptions as UK.n
- [youth, national, graduate] unemployment
- unemployment among [young people, college graduates]
- [rising, increasing, high] unemployment
- [short, long] -term unemployment
- the [rate, percentage, level, duration] of unemployment
- (the rate of) unemployment has [grown, risen, increased]
- unemployment in [Europe]
- (the rate of) unemployment by [age, demographic, region, state]
- [an increase, a rise, a fall] in unemployment
- [measures, protection, insurance] against unemployment
- in order to (try to) decrease unemployment
- the [state, country, nation] is suffering from unemployment
- [high, low, higher, lower] levels of unemployment
- to (help) curb unemployment
'unemployment' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
aftermath
- allowance
- benefit
- blight
- brief
- change
- creeping
- crest
- curb
- cure
- curtail
- decrease
- effect
- expenditure
- fall
- figure
- gloom
- high
- level
- nation
- provision
- rate
- rely
- rise
- rising
- scourge
- shrink
- slide
- slip
- staggering
- stint
- thin
- tide
- unprecedented
- youth