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
More than a thousand miles from Niagara Falls, Colvin was now homeless and jobless, with less than $200 to show for his two months of labor.
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Brendan I. Koerner, WIRED, 13 Jan. 2025
The weekly jobless claims numbers are a proxy for layoffs, and those have remained below pre-pandemic levels.
—Matt Ott, Los Angeles Times, 8 Jan. 2025
In fact, recent jobs data from The Bureau of Labor Statistics showed that the unemployment rate climbed sharply for Black women in November, while further analysis shows that the overall jobless rate edged up slightly last month to 4.2% from 4.1% in October.
—Jasmine Browley, Essence, 31 Dec. 2024
According to the Houston Police Department, a man on the flight was acting erratically and...
US employers added 143,000 jobs in solid but unspectacular January hiring, jobless rate fell to 4%
Robocalls and spam still a scourge.
—The Denver Post, 10 Feb. 2025
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Brendan I. Koerner, WIRED, 13 Jan. 2025
The weekly jobless claims numbers are a proxy for layoffs, and those have remained below pre-pandemic levels.
—Matt Ott, Los Angeles Times, 8 Jan. 2025
In fact, recent jobs data from The Bureau of Labor Statistics showed that the unemployment rate climbed sharply for Black women in November, while further analysis shows that the overall jobless rate edged up slightly last month to 4.2% from 4.1% in October.
—Jasmine Browley, Essence, 31 Dec. 2024
According to the Houston Police Department, a man on the flight was acting erratically and...
US employers added 143,000 jobs in solid but unspectacular January hiring, jobless rate fell to 4%
Robocalls and spam still a scourge.
—The Denver Post, 10 Feb. 2025
See All Example Sentences for jobless
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“Jobless.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/jobless. Accessed 9 Mar. 2025.
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