Englishjobless
adjective
sixteen percent of the town's workforce is jobless:
unemployed, out of work, without work, out of a job, without paid employment, unwaged, workless, between jobs, laid off;
British redundant;
North American on welfare, collecting unemployment;
British, informal signing on, on the dole;
British, euphemistic resting;
Australian, New Zealand, informal on the wallaby track;
North American, informal collecting;
rare disemployed.
▷antonyms in work, employed.