I. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be registered (as) unemployed/disabled etc British English (= be on an official list of a particular group )
the long-term unemployed (= people who have not had a job for a long time )
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
currently
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How can he explain that when 71,000 people in the city of Liverpool alone are currently unemployed ?
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That does not surprise me, given that 20 percent. of the male population in Newham are currently unemployed .
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Only 5.6% of women are currently unemployed - a third below the peak in 1986.
now
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And as you are now unemployed , I see no reason why you shouldn't search for them in a freelance capacity.
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James Andrews, a former Lloyds insurance broker, now unemployed , was ill for 18 months.
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He had lost his job as manager as a result of his arrest and was now unemployed .
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Mr Scaife decided that Mr Saunders, now unemployed , had deliberately deprived himself of cash resources.
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In Tayside, 533 young people are now unemployed; in Central region, 500 are unemployed.
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Seven percent of the working population ... more than nine thousand people are now unemployed .
■ NOUN
claimant
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That compares with 13,221 unemployed claimants and 241 unfilled vacancies in January 1987.
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Since January 1986 the number of unemployed claimants in the Aberdare travel to work area has fallen by 27 percent.
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Basic provision of shelter, heat and light often consume more than half the total income of unemployed claimants .
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Mr. Howard On the seasonally adjusted basis there were 2,546,000 unemployed claimants in December 1991.
man
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For example in 1983, only 30% of unemployed men had working wives, compared with 58% of employed household heads.
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Between 1979 and 1987 the proportion of unemployed men who received supplementary benefit alone increased from 43 percent to 61.4 percent.
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Late one evening, a party of thirteen unemployed men from Newport Pagnell were admitted as casuals.
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It was set up by about thirty young unemployed men in January 1965.
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Nearly all the unemployed men aged 60-64 in our study mentioned the bias towards younger people in recruitment.
people
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It currently offers on an annual basis up to 600,000 unemployed people an average of six months training and work experience.
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Since the Great Leap Forward of the 1950s, millions of young and unemployed people have been sent to the countryside.
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The first two Conservative governments presided over an economy which produced ever increasing numbers of unemployed people .
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A pilot scheme should give unemployed people aged over 55 £500 for an educational or training programme of their choice.
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Is this not a strange time to close offices which provide assistance for so many unemployed people ?
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Self help: A group of unemployed people in Middlesbrough will be building their own homes this year.
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We carefully considered - I explained how we did so - how best to help unemployed people back to work.
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Lamont's announcement of help for 100,000 unemployed people also raised half a cheer at most.
person
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This move alone will not ensure that the working partner of an unemployed person is not penalized for working.
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Body Shop staff adopt a young unemployed person on a one-to-one basis, helping with job applications, for example.
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So the average unemployed person is likely to be less healthy than the average employee.
worker
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The scheme was intended to provide financial help to unemployed workers in depressed areas who were prepared to move to other areas.
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It is a movement that started outside institutional labor: unemployed workers , community groups, church groups.
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Higher proportions of older unemployed workers experience long unemployment durations now than in the late 1970's.
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It still seems like a recession to the unemployed workers , now numbering 5 percent of the workforce.
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There are two main reasons why these unemployed workers do not find jobs immediately.
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Certainly, most unemployed workers legitimately can not find work at the wages they are accustomed to.
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Although this is highly plausible there are few studies of the skills possessed by older unemployed workers .
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It would be equally ridiculous to think of taxing only unemployed workers to finance the unemployment compensation payments which they receive.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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an unemployed steel worker
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Fifty per cent of the men in this town are unemployed .
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The accused man is an unemployed labourer from South London.
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The government is not doing enough to help the unemployed .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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An estimated 40 percent of the population is unemployed .
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Body Shop staff adopt a young unemployed person on a one-to-one basis, helping with job applications, for example.
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Finally, there was Miss Marita Calagarri, who described herself as an unemployed ship's cook.
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How can he explain that when 71,000 people in the city of Liverpool alone are currently unemployed ?
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My father, who was a well-qualified master mariner, was unemployed for four years in the 1930s.
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They were glad to be working, especially in these years of drought when so many people were unemployed .
II. noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But then, labor has always had a funny relationship with the unemployed .
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But there is no evidence that the unemployed or the poor are being pushed to crime by the deteriorating economic conditions.
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But with 3.8 million people unemployed and violence against foreigners on the rise, immigration remains a politically charged issue here.
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Easy payment schemes are often possible and for the unemployed or those in receipt of benefits colleges often waive tuition fees.
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Most courses cost around the L100 mark but would be free to the unemployed or those in receipt of certain government benefits.
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These were the dummy variables representing the unemployed and the retired.