unemployment roll
collocation in Englishmeaningsofunemploymentandroll
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unemployment
noun[U]
uk/ˌʌn.ɪmˈplɔɪ.mənt/us/ˌʌn.ɪmˈplɔɪ.mənt/
the number of people who do not have a job that ...
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roll
noun
uk/rəʊl/us/roʊl/
a piece of film, paper, or cloth that is rolled into the shape of ...
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(Definition ofunemploymentandrollfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofunemployment roll
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Some of us believe they are disappearing off theunemploymentroll, but they are going on to another.
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You have driven men off theunemploymentroll, you have forced them on to the guardians.
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Training is a means of getting them off theunemploymentroll.
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This is the sort of resolution we are still getting, though we are being told every week that large numbers of men are disappearing from theunemploymentroll.
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It has anunemploymentrollof 462.
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When the farms are taken away and resettled there will be a permanent addition to theunemploymentroll of something like 88,000 people who are earning wages at the moment.
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When that was coupled with a successful economic policy, unemployment rolls tumbled.
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They were hoovering the pavements in preparation for a general election and trying to get people off unemployment rolls.
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It is a one-year, cosmetic attempt to take young men and women off the unemployment rolls and to give them nothing resembling a real skill or qualification.
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Nearly two million people left the unemployment rolls.
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