unemployed worker

collocation in English

meaningsofunemployedandworker

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unemployed
adjective
uk
/ˌʌn.ɪmˈplɔɪd/us
/ˌʌn.ɪmˈplɔɪd/
not having a job that ...
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worker
noun[C]
uk
/ˈwɜː.kər/us
/ˈwɝː.kɚ/
someone who works in a particular job or in a ...
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(Definition ofunemployedandworkerfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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That is the machinery by which the direction reaches anunemployedworker.
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Do they want to take theunemployedworkeroff the fund?
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What a tragedy when we look upon theunemployedworkerto-day!
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The problem of anyunemployedworkerabove 45 is a serious one.
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Anunemployedworkerought to get benefits in proportion to his contributions.
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Nearer our own time, anunemployedworkerin the 1930s would have thought it very strange, for he also was not in a position to consume very much.
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The annual cost of anunemployedworkeris estimated to be £7,900 in terms of unemployment benefit and lost taxes.
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Four shillings a week is an awful lot of money for the wife of anunemployedworkerto find.
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It is an admirable self-balancing scheme, but it is a scheme to which theunemployedworkercan look forward with no satisfaction at all.
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On the nethermost rung of the ladder, with his mouth just above the water line, was anunemployedworker.
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Even if it could be enforced, it is by no means certain that it would be to the advantage of the olderunemployedworker.
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Therefore, a striker's family is about £30 a week worse off than the family of theunemployedworker.
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Surely anunemployedworkergoes to the employment exchange precisely because if he did not he would not get his benefit.
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I raise this point because, in many ways, theunemployedworkeris in the most vulnerable position of all.
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It did not mean that theunemployedworkershould get less, but rather that the fund should not carry so much of the burden.
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Upon what principle would anunemployedworkerwho has no contractual rights to benefit, and is in need of help, receive it?
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Every unemployed man has been anunemployedworker, but to-day you acre putting large classes of men outside the category of anunemployedworker.
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It is a tax which is paid at the same rate by the poorest and by the wealthiest, by theunemployedworkerand by the billionaire.
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He is the long-termunemployedworkerwho may well be cushioned by benefit payments but who gradually loses self-respect and confidence as a useful member of society.
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