"unemployment rate" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: unemployment rates [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} unemployment rate (plural unemployment rates)
  1. The percentage of people without jobs who are seeking employment within the total number of workers. Translations (Translations): werkloosheidscijfer [neuter] (Dutch), werkloosheidspercentage [neuter] (Dutch), työttömyysaste (Finnish), työttömyysluku (Finnish), taux de chômage [masculine] (French), stopa bezrobocia [feminine] (Polish), tasa de desempleo [feminine] (Spanish), tasa de paro [feminine] (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-unemployment_rate-en-noun-VPj9DdAY Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

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