| 单词 | full employment |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfull employment full employment n. the state of affairs in which virtually every individual in the labour force of a particular country, economy, etc., who is able and willing to work is employed or is readily able to find work (see also quot. 1948). ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > working > labour supply > [noun] > absence of idle labour or capital full employment1758 1758 Universal Mag. June 299/2 All political writers lay it down as a maxim, that numbers of people without employment are a burden and disease to the body politic; and, where there is full employment, there the people multiply of course. 1835 M. Loudon Philanthropy 107 If the self same cause which gives cheap food, gives full employment to labour [etc.]. 1940 Economist 20 Jan. 88/1 Optimistic assumptions of the effect that the attainment of ‘full employment’ will have on the revenue. 1948 G. Crowther Outl. Money (ed. 2) v. 138 ‘Full employment’ does not necessarily mean that every man and woman has a job. It means only that there are no more supplies of idle labour or idle capital of the sorts that are actually being demanded. 2001 Times 19 Nov. 23/1 The suggestion that the UK was anywhere near full employment was always wide of the mark. < as lemmas |
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