| 释义 |
jobless, a. and n.|ˈdʒɒblɪs|
[f. job n.2 + -less.]
1. Free from jobbery. rare.
1807–8Syd. Smith Plymley's Lett. xlvi. (ed. 11) 130, I ask him his opinion of a jobless faith, of a creed which dooms a man..to a lean and plunderless integrity.
2. Out of work, unemployed. Also as n. collect.
1923Glasgow Herald 25 Oct. 7 The demand that would ensue for land users would mean jobs for jobless men. 1937Times Lit. Suppl. 16 Oct. 755/2 The later episodes showing the graduates of the college being set free into a jobless world full of depression are not so agreeable. 1958Economist 1 Nov. 415/1 One-sixth to one-fourth of the labour force has been jobless for several months. 1970Times 7 Sept. 16 (headline) Jobless total must go higher says Paish. 1971Nature 8 Oct. 369/2, 4·4 per cent of the engineers who do not possess a degree of any kind were jobless in the summer.
So ˈjoblessness, the state of being out of work.
1923Public Opinion 30 Mar. 304/1 He means not the fear of foremen so much as the fear of joblessness. 1964Economist 11 Jan. 110/1 The realities behind joblessness. |