labor market

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noun

the available supply of labor considered with reference to the demand for it.

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Origin of labor market

First recorded in 1825–35

Words nearby labor market

labor-intensive, laborious, Laborism, Laborite, Labor-Management Relations Act, labor market, labor movement, labor of love, labor omnia vincit, labor pains, Labor Party

How to use labor market in a sentence

The economy gained just 49,000 jobs in January as recovery sputters amid pressure from virusThe higher figure is another reflection of how the pandemic continues to constrain the labor market.
Fed chair: Unemployment rate was closer to 10 percent, not 6.3 percent, in January|Rachel Siegel|February 10, 2021|Washington Post
The January data, released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, is yet another reminder of how much ground the labor market still needs to regain to return to pre-pandemic levels.
The economy gained just 49,000 jobs in January, as recover sputters amid pressure from virus|Eli Rosenberg|February 5, 2021|Washington Post
The data released Wednesday by ADP Research Institute suggests that the labor market may be starting to pick up again after employment fell in December.
Minority-owned companies hampered by the coronavirus pandemic||February 3, 2021|Washington Post
The problem is that the labor market is broadly weaker, with declines in 36 states, showing that a larger economic decline is under way.
The markets may be faltering, but these surprise stocks are taking off|Bernhard Warner|January 15, 2021|Fortune

Chris Rupkey, chief financial economist at MUFG, warned in a note to investors that the “dark days of the labor market” from the spring have returned.
$2,000 stimulus checks could become a reality with Democratic control of the Senate|Jeff Stein, Erica Werner|January 6, 2021|Washington Post
It may be fun and it may get them paid, until oversaturation ruins our sense for irony and destroys the market for it.
Trolls and Martyrdom: Je Ne Suis Pas Charlie|Arthur Chu|January 9, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Paperback publishers distributed their titles in African-American neighborhoods because it expanded their market base.
How Pulp Fiction Saved Literature|Wendy Smith|January 8, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Indeed, Lion Air, with 45 percent of the domestic Indonesian airline market, has swallowed the Fernandes formula whole.
Annoying Airport Delays Might Prevent You From Becoming the Next AirAsia 8501|Clive Irving|January 6, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Expensive day care pushes women out of the labor market while men continue to work outside the home.
How Good Dads Can Change the World|Gary Barker, PhD, Michael Kaufman|January 6, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Mr. Bachner found it by wandering through the market and identified a craftsmen here who works in a tiny booth.
The Photographer Who Gave Up Manhattan for Marrakech|Liza Foreman|January 6, 2015|DAILY BEAST
All over the world the just claims of organized labor are intermingled with the underground conspiracy of social revolution.
The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice|Stephen Leacock
The blind Samson of labor will seize upon the pillars of society and bring them down in a common destruction.
The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice|Stephen Leacock
When the days were fine, Jean in his basket assisted at the dramatic performance in the market-place.
The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol|William J. Locke
The poverty of earlier days was the outcome of the insufficiency of human labor to meet the primal needs of human kind.
The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice|Stephen Leacock
Beggars are not abundant; but women are required to labor quite extensively in the fields.
Glances at Europe|Horace Greeley

Cultural definitions for labor market

labor market

An area of economic exchange in which workers seek jobs and employers seek workers. A “tight” labor market has more jobs than workers. In a “slack” labor market, the reverse is true.