unemployment

What does unemployment mean?

unemployment means "the state of being unemployed or not having a job".

How many syllables are in unemployment?

unemployment has 4 syllables: un-em-ploy-ment. The stress falls on "ploy". In IPA it is /ˌʌnɪmˈplɔɪmənt/.

What is the opposite of unemployment?

The recorded antonyms are employment.

Is unemployment a common word?

unemployment is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with unemployment?

3 words rhyme with unemployment. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for unemployment come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.