overall employment
collocation in Englishmeaningsofoverallandemployment
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overall
adverb[before noun]
adjective
uk/ˌəʊ.vəˈrɔːl/us/ˌoʊ.vɚˈɑːl/
in general rather than in particular, or including all the people or things in a particular group ...
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employment
noun[U]
uk/ɪmˈplɔɪ.mənt/us/ɪmˈplɔɪ.mənt/
the fact of someone being paid to work for a company ...
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(Definition ofoverallandemploymentfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Benchmarks and performance indicators are set by expert committees, with quantified targets foroverallemploymentrates.
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The union's utility function is the product ofoverallemploymentmultiplied by the individual earnings of employees in the unionized sector.
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It is also interesting that this reduction happened to coincide with a decrease inoverallemployment.
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There will be no huge leap inoverallemploymentcosts.
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It cannot be denied that employment opportunities for disabled people must move more or less in step withoverallemploymentopportunities.
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Theoverallemploymentpicture gives cause for hope of an improvement.
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We must look at theoverallemploymentsituation and the deprivation resulting from it.
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Since 1997, the general growth in employment for the most disadvantaged groups has been greater than the growth inoverallemployment.
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As such, it is not a question of marginal problems, but of an economically extremely large, significant and important element of theoverallemploymentpolicy.
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Overallemploymenthas basically bottomed out and unemployment is staying put, even if it is not increasing as, for example, in my country.
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Theoverallemploymenteffects are likely to be minimal as the total volume of public expenditure has not been reduced.
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But in the final analysis it is broad national policies which affect theoverallemploymentposition.
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They target the wards within these areas which have the lowestoverallemploymentrates and the highest rate of people claiming all benefits.
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We agreed action to combat social exclusion, with member states setting targets on specific matters such as unemployment, youth unemployment,overallemploymentand child poverty.
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For the past four years the employment rate for the over-50s has increased faster than theoverallemploymentrate.
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Many successful businesses shed staff in the 1980s butoverallemploymentstill increased strongly.
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We are all aware that there are signs of recovery appearing in some countries, but this is not reflected in theoverallemploymentsituation.
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Even so, theoverallemploymentrate among women is only 55%, whilst that of men is as high as 71%.
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