nonfarm
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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Job-growth data are nonfarm payrolls, change from a month earlier.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 18, 2026
The U.S. nonfarm payrolls report for April will be published at 8:30 a.m.
From MarketWatch • May 8, 2026
The state lost more nonfarm jobs than it gained last year as its red-hot housing market cooled.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 4, 2026
The consensus among economists polled by FactSet is that the U.S. economy added 50,000 nonfarm jobs in April, down from 178,000 in March.
From Barron's • May 3, 2026
This decline, which has been going on for almost 2 years, has occurred at a time when most nonfarm prices and farm costs of production are extraordinarily high.
From State of the Union Address by Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David)
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