Unemployment vs. Retirement
Unemployment and Retirement Definitions
Unemployment
The state of being unemployed, especially involuntarily.
Retirement
Withdrawal from one's occupation or position, especially upon reaching a certain age.
Unemployment
The percentage or number of people who are involuntarily unemployed
Unemployment has been shrinking throughout the recovery.
Retirement
The age at which one withdraws from work or activity
On reaching retirement, he took up woodworking.
Unemployment
Unemployment insurance.
Retirement
The act of retiring or the state of being retired
The retirement of debt.
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Unemployment
The state of having no job; joblessness.
Unemployment made Jack depressed.
Retirement
Privacy or seclusion
In the retirement of your own home.
Unemployment
The phenomenon of joblessness in an economy.
Unemployment has been considered a cause of crime.
Retirement
(Archaic) A place of privacy or seclusion; a retreat.
Unemployment
The level of joblessness in an economy, often measured as a percentage of the workforce.
Unemployment was reported at 5.2% in May, up from 4.9% in April.
Retirement
An act of retiring; withdrawal.
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Unemployment
(countable) A type of joblessness due to a particular economic mechanism.
All unemployments, seasonal, frictional, cyclical, classical, whatever, mean that you're out of work.
Retirement
(uncountable) The state of being retired; seclusion.
Unemployment
(countable) An instance or period of joblessness.
Until then his life had consisted of low-paying jobs, numerous unemployments, and drug use.
Retirement
A place of seclusion or privacy; a retreat.
Unemployment
Quality or state of being not employed; - used esp. in economics, of the condition of various social classes when temporarily thrown out of employment, as those engaged for short periods, those whose trade is decaying, and those least competent.
Retirement
The state of having permanently left one's employment, now especially at reaching pensionable age; the portion of one's life after retiring from one's career.
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Unemployment
The state of being unemployed or not having a job;
Unemployment is a serious social evil
The rate of unemployment is an indicator of the health of an economy
Retirement
The act of leaving one's career or employment permanently.
Retirement
The act of retiring, or the state of being retired; withdrawal; seclusion; as, the retirement of an officer.
O, blest Retirement, friend of life's decline.
Retirement, rural quiet, friendship, books.
Retirement
A place of seclusion or privacy; a place to which one withdraws or retreats; a private abode.
This coast full of princely retirements for the sumptousness of their buildings and nobleness of the plantations.
Caprea had been the retirement of Augustus.
Retirement
The state of being retired from one's business or occupation
Retirement
Withdrawal from your position or occupation
Retirement
Withdrawal for prayer and study and meditation;
A religious retreat
