le
/ʃo.maʒ/
Translation
unemployment
Word origin
From chômer ('to be idle, to be out of work'), from Vulgar Latin caumare ('to rest during the midday heat'), from Greek kauma ('burning heat'). English calm comes from the same Greek root, by way of the same Vulgar Latin form.
- Origin
- Greek
- Root
- kauma
- English cognates
- calm
Grammar
Examples
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The unemployment rate has fallen this year.
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He has been unemployed for six months.
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The government announced new measures against unemployment.
is almost always used in the singular: ('to be unemployed') is the everyday phrase, and on its own means unemployment as a state of the economy, not individual out-of-work spells (those are ).
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