extension of unemployment
collocation in Englishmeaningsofextensionandunemployment
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extension
noun
uk/ɪkˈsten.ʃən/us/ɪkˈsten.ʃən/
the fact of reaching, stretching, or continuing; the act of adding to something in order to make it bigger ...
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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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(Definition ofextensionandunemploymentfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofextension of unemployment
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No one wants to see anextensionofunemployment.
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That is theextensionofunemploymentinsurance to agricultural workers.
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I do not contemplate theextensionofunemploymentinsurance to private domestic service.
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The time is ripe now for anextensionofunemploymentinsurance.
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This proposal is therefore not a seriousextensionofunemploymentinsurance.
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Theextensionofunemploymentinsurance to this class is badly wanted.
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I was specifically asked about theextensionofunemploymentinsurance to agricultural workers.
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There is a committee that has been considering theextensionofunemploymentinsurance to this class of workers.
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He also strenuously opposed theextensionofunemploymentbenefits to the unemployed.
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Redundancy payments are not anextensionofunemploymentbenefit, and the victim or potential victim is not usually expected to contribute to his own compensation or potential compensation.
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We are to have thirty-six pits closed, and possibly that will mean anextensionofunemployment—temporarily we hope—in my part of the world and other parts where coal is mined.
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That answer is simply that we were in a crisis which involved, unless some such measure was taken, a colossal loss of spending power and an enormousextensionofunemployment.
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