lack of employment
collocation in Englishmeaningsofandemployment
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noun[U]
uk/ɪmˈplɔɪ.mənt/us/ɪmˈplɔɪ.mənt/
the fact of someone being paid to work for a company ...
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(Definition oflack-ofandemploymentfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Being pushed to the eastern or the western periphery implied moving further away from the informal economy and alackofemploymentopportunities.
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Juveniles, able-bodied but idle, were especially suspect in the eyes of the virtuous, their poverty wilful and morally threatening, theirlackofemploymenta choice rather than a consequence.
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In other words some older workers are excluded from the labour-force prematurely by redundancy or ill-health and others at the statutory retirement age by thelackofemploymentopportunities.
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Many of our young people are having to trudge the streets because of thelackofemployment.
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Every year since then that little county has been bled white of its youth, which has been compelled to leave because oflackofemployment.
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For our most deprived estates, the key problems are not just poor housing, butlackofemploymentand economic opportunity.
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The idea that alackofemploymentrights is an incentive to employ is nonsense.
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They are squeezed bylackofemploymentopportunities, by the new social security 21-hour rule, and by cuts in student grants.
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What does that represent in alackofemployment?
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It is thelackofemploymentopportunities that has caused the inner cities to die.
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That is why we are so seriously concerned about thelackofemploymentopportunities.
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These days they are mutually dependent, they share issues like deprivation, poor transport andlackofemployment.
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I would suggest that the major reason for thelackofemploymentof these men is twofold.
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Thelackofemploymentfor women is accidental.
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Thatlackofemploymenthas contributed to the growth of certain types of crime.
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I was only referring to the matter to show that it was one of the reasons for thelackofemployment.
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I presume his change of opinion has been owing to thelackofemploymentfound for these prisoners of war in this country.
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Can we take it that it is now beyond the region of doubt that there will be nolackofemployment?
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Thelackofemploymentwhich has been caused by the industrial decline has led to social and economic decline.
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