Translation of unemployment in Spanish:
- 1 (being out of work) (before noun) unemployment insurance (American English) unemployment benefit o ( (American English) also) compensationsubsidio (masculine) de cesantía (Chile)Example sentences
- Drug abuse, unemployment and prejudice are among the many difficulties facing our communities.
- As a society, we have chosen to have a certain level of unemployment in exchange for low inflation.
- The low level of unemployment has also been a major contributor to growth.
- 2 (number of unemployed)desempleo (masculine)hidden unemployment
número (masculine) de desempleados
paro (masculine) (Spain)
cesantía (feminine) (Chile)desempleo or (Spain) paro encubierto or disfrazadocesantía disfrazada (Chile)(before noun) unemployment figurescifras (feminine plural) de desempleo ( or desocupación etc)número (masculine) de desempleados or desocupados or (Spain) parados or (Chile) cesantesExample sentences
- Critics perceived it as a desperate government policy to hide the soaring unemployment figures of the day.
- So all this economic growth stuff and unemployment figures may be wide of the real mark.
- It would lower unemployment figures because more people would be able to do it.
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