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Synonyms for jobless


Grammar : Adj
Spell : job-lis
Phonetic Transcription : ˈdʒɒb lɪs



Définition of jobless

Origin :
  • 1905 (adj.), 1909 (n.), from job (n.) + -less. Related: Joblessness.
  • adj unemployed
Example sentences :
  • Tens of thousands of them milling about, homeless, penniless, jobless.
  • Extract from : « Land of the Burnt Thigh » by Edith Eudora Kohl
  • Two weeks ago he was down and out, broke, jobless, starving.
  • Extract from : « The Substitute Prisoner » by Max Marcin
  • Enroll them in a networking club for the jobless, one of the really good ones.
  • Extract from : « Makers » by Cory Doctorow
  • I ask him his opinion of a jobless faith, of a creed which dooms a man through life to a lean and plunderless integrity.
  • Extract from : « Peter Plymley's Letters » by Sydney Smith
  • Half a thousand jobless workers, armed and reckless, marched toward the docks.
  • Extract from : « Port O' Gold » by Louis John Stellman
  • Now half a thousand jobless workers, armed and reckless, marched toward the docks.
  • Extract from : « Port O' Gold » by Louis John Stellman
  • He was more and more afraid of her as the despair of the jobless man in the hard city settled down on him.
  • Extract from : « The Job » by Sinclair Lewis
  • What she was ashamed of now was the home it must take her to and the jobless husband waiting for her there.
  • Extract from : « We Can't Have Everything » by Rupert Hughes
  • The day before a jobless soldier threw himself beneath a train and his last words were, 'Over the top and the best of luck.'
  • Extract from : « The Kingdom Round the Corner » by Coningsby Dawson
  • The Commission wants unemployment to drop to the point where the number of jobless workers will equal the number of vacant jobs!
  • Extract from : « The Invisible Government » by Dan Smoot

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