NEET
Americannoun
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NEETs
plural
acronym
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of NEET
First recorded in 1995–2000
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The protests had erupted in May after NEET, India's biggest medical entrance exam, was cancelled following a question paper leak, forcing nearly two million students to retake the test.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
His father, Rajesh Kumar, is a small farmer in a village where Pradeep was the only student preparing for NEET.
From BBC ● Aug. 2, 2026
The latest education protests erupted in May after NEET, India's biggest medical entrance exam, was cancelled following a question paper leak, forcing nearly two million students to retake the test.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
The New York duo talk volume and unlikely musical inspiration, and reveal how they came to be signed to MIA's record label, NEET.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 18, 2010
He warned NEETs could rise to one in six young people, potentially blighting lives for decades.
From BBC ● Jun. 23, 2026
The above statistics includes young people looking for work and is different to NEETs - which only looks at young people not in Education, Employment, or Training.
From BBC ● Mar. 18, 2026
Why not incentivize corporations to deliberately hire unemployed veterans, NEETs or laid-off machinists who need training?
From Time ● Dec. 7, 2015
Britain, which has one of the world’s most flexible labour markets, has around 1m NEETs.
From Economist ● Apr. 25, 2013
Luckily the soil is fertile: All over the world, the hittistes and shabab atileen, NEETs and freeters and boomerang kids are hungry for a chance to thrive.
From BusinessWeek ● Feb. 3, 2011
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