jobless
- (used with a plural verb) unemployed people collectively, especially those who are seeking a job (usually preceded by the).
Origin of jobless
Examples from the Web for jobless
Contemporary Examples of jobless
Emergency benefits have just expired for some 1.3 million jobless Americans, putting a huge dent in our economy.
With the help of GM and Ford and jobless claims at a five-year low, the S&P hit a record high of over 1,700 points.
Starting in early 2010, this ceased to be a jobless recovery.
Business activity revived but reemployment lagged; policymakers confronted what would today be called a “jobless recovery.”
One of the biggest factors in breaking out of a jobless streak could be … your teeth?
Historical Examples of jobless
Tens of thousands of them milling about, homeless, penniless, jobless.
Land of the Burnt ThighEdith Eudora Kohl
Two weeks ago he was down and out, broke, jobless, starving.
The Substitute PrisonerMax Marcin
Enroll them in a networking club for the jobless, one of the really good ones.
MakersCory Doctorow
I ask him his opinion of a jobless faith, of a creed which dooms a man through life to a lean and plunderless integrity.
Peter Plymley's LettersSydney Smith
Half a thousand jobless workers, armed and reckless, marched toward the docks.
Port O' GoldLouis John Stellman
jobless
- unemployed
- (as collective noun; preceded by the)the jobless