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UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION
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Dictionary entry overview: What does unemployment compensation mean?
• UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION (noun)
The noun UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION has 1 sense:
1. payment by a United States agency to unemployed people
Familiarity information: UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Payment by a United States agency to unemployed people
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("unemployment compensation" is a kind of...):
social insurance (government provision for unemployed, injured, or aged people; financed by contributions from employers and employees as well as by government revenue)
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