unemployment line

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   a queue of people waiting for employment

   Broaderqueue

Questions about unemployment line

What does unemployment line mean?

unemployment line means "a queue of people waiting for employment".

Is unemployment line a common word?

unemployment line 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.