noun
Meaning 1
A person seeking employment.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
jobseeker
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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/ˈd͡ʒɒbˌsiː.kɘ(ɹ)/
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noun
Meaning 2
An unemployed person who must demonstrate active jobseeking efforts to qualify for government assistance.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Australia, UK
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
From job + seeker.
Across languages
Translations
28 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Azerbaijani: işaxtaran — person seeking employment
- Azerbaijani: işarayan — person seeking employment
- Azerbaijani: işgəzən — person seeking employment
- Chinese Mandarin: 尋工者 /寻工者 (xúngōngzhě) — person seeking employment
- Dutch: werkzoekende — person seeking employment
- Finnish: työnhakija — person seeking employment
- French: demandeur d'emploi — person seeking employment
- French: demandeuse d'emploi — person seeking employment
- German: Arbeitsuchender — person seeking employment
- German: Arbeitsuchende — person seeking employment
- Greek: αναζητών εργασία (anazitón ergasía) — person seeking employment
- Hebrew: מחפש עבודה (mekhapés avodá) — person seeking employment
- Hebrew: דורש עבודה (dorésh avodá) — person seeking employment
- Hungarian: álláskereső — person seeking employment
- Hungarian: munkakereső — person seeking employment
- Italian: persona in cerca di lavoro — person seeking employment
- Japanese: 求職者 (kyūshokusha) — person seeking employment
- Khmer: អ្នកស្វែងរកការងារ (néaksvêng rôkkar ngéar) — person seeking employment
- Malay: pencari kerja — person seeking employment
- Malayalam: തൊഴിലന്വേഷകൻ (toḻilanvēṣakaṉ) — person seeking employment
- Polish: osoba poszukująca pracy — person seeking employment
- Portuguese: demandante de trabalho — person seeking employment
- Russian: и́щущий рабо́ту (íščuščij rabótu) — person seeking employment
- Spanish: demandante de empleo — person seeking employment
- Spanish: buscante de trabajo — person seeking employment
- Spanish: buscachamba — person seeking employment
- Swedish: arbetssökande — person seeking employment
- Swedish: jobbsökande — person seeking employment