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Definition of jobless adjective from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

jobless

adjective
 
/ˈdʒɒbləs/
 
/ˈdʒɑːbləs/
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  1. without a job synonym unemployed
    • The closure left 500 people jobless.
    • The company has plans to make more people jobless.
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    Oxford Collocations DictionaryJobless is used with these nouns:
    • benefit
    • rate
    • recovery
    • …
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  2. the jobless
     noun [plural] people who are unemployed
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