# arbeitslos

arbeitslos is a German adjective meaning “unemployed”.

## In other languages

- Русский: безработный
- Українська: безробітний

## Meanings

1. unemployed (having no work despite being willing to work)
2. _colloquial_ on welfare; unemployed; idle (having no work and being supported by social benefits despite being able to work)
3. _Germany_ working less than 15 hours a week, actively looking for a job that is subject to obligatory social-security payments, registered at the national employment agency, and responding to the latter’s placement services
4. jobless; unemployed; on the dole; out of work; redundant
   - Viele Leute sind in den letzten Jahren arbeitslos geworden.

## Examples

- Ihr Vater wurde vor Kurzem arbeitslos. — Her father lost his job recently.
- Tom ist arbeitslos. — Tom is jobless.
- Sind Sie arbeitslos? — Are you out of work?
- Ob Tom wohl noch immer arbeitslos ist? — I wonder if Tom is still unemployed.
- Er ist seit einem Monat arbeitslos. — He's been out of work for a month.

## Related words

- Synonym: beschäftigungslos, brotlos, erwerbslos

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