UNEMPLOYMENT RATE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The percentage of the work force that is unemployed at any given date

Classified under:

Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas

Hypernyms ("unemployment rate" is a kind of...):

pct; per centum; percent; percentage (a proportion in relation to a whole (which is usually the amount per hundred))

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