jobless
adjEtymology From job + -less.
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Lacking employment.
- a jobless man
- The government announced a new initiative to help the jobless.
1 more example
- The report was slightly gloomier than in June, when unemployment rates eased in more than half of all U.S. states for a third straight month and only five states reported jobless rate increases.2010 August 20, Blake Ellis, “Unemployment rates rise in 14 states”, in CNN Money, archived from the original on 04 Oct 2024:
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Slang Having too much time on one's hands; having nothing better to do.
- ― I’m showing him our texts with her, the liar. ― Bro, that is so jobless!
- Synonyms
- unemployed
- Derived terms
- joblessly, joblessness