(economics) A type of unemployment explained by a mismatch between the requirements of the employers and the properties (such as skills, age, gender or location) of the unemployed.

(economics) A type of unemployment explained by people being temporarily between jobs, searching for new ones. A labour market is regarded as being in the state of full employment if frictional unemployment is the only kind of unemployment present.

(economics) According to the 19th-century German philosopher Karl Marx, unemployment needed by the capitalists in order to maintain work discipline in jobs, keep wages down, and protect business profitability.

(economics) The component of overall unemployment caused by too high wage expectations.

(economics) A type of unemployment explained by the demand for labor going up and down with the business cycle.

Without equal; unmatched.

(American spelling) Unmatched, superlative, the best ever done, record setting.

(taxation) Income that is not a wage, such as interest, dividends or realized capital gains from investments, rent from land or property ownership, and any other income that does not derive from work.

Do not be surprised by unusual events. Anything might happen.

plural of unemployment benefit