| 释义 |
over-emˈployment
[over- 29 b.]
A situation in which vacancies for jobs, esp. skilled jobs, exceed the number of unemployed, producing a labour shortage; a state of insufficient unemployment.
1944Times 9 Nov. 5/3 Sir William Beveridge believes that..‘Full employment’..‘should mean a floating balance of not more than about three per cent unemployed’... The dangers of inflation implicit in an attempt to secure ‘over-employment’ are real enough in any full employment policy. 1958Times 11 June 11/5 The contraction of demand has been felt in the United States in the form of unemployment, and in Great Britain in a relaxation of the state of over-employment. |