technological unemployment
noun
unemployment caused by technological changes or new methods of production in an industry or business.
Origin of technological unemployment
1First recorded in 1925–30
Words Nearby technological unemployment
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How to use technological unemployment in a sentence
What they have not done is led to permanent technological unemployment.
Relax, Robots Won’t Take Every Job: ‘The Second Machine Age’ | Scott Timberg | March 14, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
Cultural definitions for technological unemployment
technological unemployment
Unemployment caused by the displacement of workers by machines.
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