unemployment compensation

1. 1.

   payment by a United States agency to unemployed people

   Broadersocial insurance

Questions about unemployment compensation

What does unemployment compensation mean?

unemployment compensation means "payment by a United States agency to unemployed people".

Is unemployment compensation a common word?

unemployment compensation is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.