[] the fact of a number of people not having a job; the number of people without a job失业；失业人数◆an area of high unemployment失业率高的地区◆a rising/falling unemployment rate上升的／下降的失业率the state of not having a job失业◆people facing long-term unemployment面临长期失业的人们➡employment frictional unemployment hidden unemployment search unemployment seasonal unemployment structural unemployment