Definition of structural unemployment in US English:
 structural unemployment
nounˈstrək(t)SH(ə)rəl ˌənəmˈploimənt
Unemployment resulting from industrial reorganization, typically due to technological change, rather than fluctuations in supply or demand.
 Example sentencesExamples
-  The consequence of this is structural unemployment - a situation in which increasing numbers of unemployed lose work skills.
 -  Exports will bear no relationship to our domestic employment as structural unemployment becomes increasingly obvious.
 -  The focus now is more properly on environmental sustainability and, as argued earlier, on the demographic implications of structural unemployment.
 -  In addition to a reduction in structural unemployment, deregulation also lowers the incentive for surprise inflation.
 -  By the time of Mitterrand's exit from politics in 1995, the country suffered from a structural unemployment rate that hovered around 12 per cent.
 -  This might lead to a conservation of the high level of structural unemployment.
 -  Bad historical luck could lock a group into the wrong skills or geography, causing retarded growth and structural unemployment.
 -  President Chirac's team made pledges on reforms which could diminish the high level of overall structural unemployment.
 -  It's true that the shift of service jobs to countries such as India, like other trade-related dislocation, adds to the temporary pain of structural unemployment.
 -  Financial Secretary Henry Tang said yesterday that Hong Kong's structural unemployment will take some time to ease.
 -  Workforce 2010 stresses the importance of investing in education, training and innovation as the key to reducing structural unemployment.
 -  These factors contributed to sluggish economic growth and persistently high structural unemployment, especially in the eastern states.
 -  A third change to the nature of work since the 1970s has been the growth and acceptance of structural unemployment.
 -  Before 1994 greenfield investment was largely confined to areas with high structural unemployment.
 -  The actual result was the decline by a third of Gaza's GDP, structural unemployment rates of between 25-30 per cent and the second Intifada.