unemployment line
noun[C]
USukus(UKdole queue)ECONOMICS
used to refer to thenumberofunemployedpeoplein aparticularplaceat aparticulartime:
Locally,traditionalwintercutsinseasonaljobslengthenedtheunemploymentlines.
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The demand was still not met with only 34,000 accepted for enlistment with 30% taken from theunemploymentline.
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Wikipedia
This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Quit high school just to queue inunemploymentline.
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Wikipedia
This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.We also know that the unemployment lines are too long.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
Day by day, unemployment lines grow, civil wars break out and our streets are less safe to walk in.
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