Definition of "jobless" []

• Having no job. (adjective)
• Of or relating to those who have no jobs. (adjective)
• Unemployed people considered as a group. Used with the. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "I detest the term "jobless recovery" as an oxymoron."
• "I replied that he should tell that to the millions of young people who are unemployed - to them the term jobless recovery is an oxymoron."
• "Allowing the term jobless recovery to be used so frequently, speaking of a recovery when unemployment was only getting worse and sandwiching a jobs summit between other events in December also helped send this message."