job market

American  

noun

1. the total number of vacant jobs open to those seeking employment.

2. the aggregate of those persons seeking employment.

   Thousands of June graduates entered the job market.

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Example Sentences

They are also anxious about a job market that has been offering fewer opportunities.

From The Wall Street Journal

Considering the NFL’s wide-open job market, he couldn’t pick a better time to be an out-of-work football coach.

From The Wall Street Journal

The job market has been tough going for out-of-work jobseekers, with monthly net job creation cooling appreciably in the second half of last year compared with during the boom that followed the Covid-19 pandemic.

From The Wall Street Journal

After the Fed ended 2025 with three straight interest-rate cuts, traders are heading into next week’s policy meeting confident that relative stability in the job market will support a central-bank vote to hold rates steady to start the new year.

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The fall in unemployment has eased concerns that the job market might weaken quickly if the Reserve Bank of Australia were to start raising interest rates to combat what has become a nagging resurgence in inflation over recent months.

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