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

The good news is that the job market isn’t as stagnant as many feared, as private employers returned to hiring in January.

From The Wall Street Journal

She added, however, that this is "enough to stabilize the job market and send the unemployment rate slightly lower."

From Barron's

"This is still a largely frozen job market, but it is stabilizing," she said.

From Barron's

Still, as Brad Conger, chief investment officer at Hirtle Callaghan, notes, “a stronger job market will support the ‘broadening trade’ —the rotation to industrial cyclicals and consumer discretionary from technology.”

From Barron's

A stronger job market is likely to stoke renewed inflation concerns, which have been pressured by higher input costs tied to the commodity price boom and the impact of sweeping tariffs applied to foreign imports.

From Barron's