how to pronounce unemployment

/ˌʌn.ɪmˈplɔɪ.mənt/

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unemployment is pronounced in four syllables

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An example use of unemployment in a speech by a native speaker of british english:

“… this would be an unemployment on a scale …”

meaning of unemployment

Unemployment is the state of not having a job.

unemployment frequency in english - B1 level of CEFR

the word unemployment occurs in english on average 64.3 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for B1 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.