unemployment rate

1. 1.

   the percentage of the work force that is unemployed at any given date

   Broaderpercentage

Questions about unemployment rate

What does unemployment rate mean?

unemployment rate means "the percentage of the work force that is unemployed at any given date".

Is unemployment rate a common word?

unemployment rate 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.