Meaning & use
jobless
Without paid work; unemployed, especially describing a person or an economic condition.
See it in a sentence
The factory closure left hundreds of workers jobless just before the holidays.
The report showed the jobless rate had dropped for the third month in a row.
A note on using this word
'Jobless rate' is a common economic term roughly equivalent to the unemployment rate.
Words with a similar meaning
unemployed
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Words with an opposite meaning
employed
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