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le chômage

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Definition: unemployment

Le taux de chômage est très élevé - The unemployment rate is very high.

Mon père est au chômage - My father is unemployed.

Related: le chômedu (familiar) - unemployment, dole, welfare; chômer - to be unemployed; un chômeur - unemployed person

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