Definition of Full employment

1. Noun. The economic condition when everyone who wishes to work at the going wage rate for their type of labor is employed.

Generic synonyms: Economic Condition

Definition of Full employment

1. Noun. (economics politics) A policy goal state in which all those wanting employment at the prevailing wages can find it. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Full Employment

full boats
full bore
full breakfast
full breakfasts
full breech presentation
full circle
full complement
full count
full court press
full cousin
full denture
full disclosure
full dress
full dress uniform
full dress uniforms
full employment (current term)
full gainer
full general
full house
full infinitive
full infinitives
full liquid diet
full marks
full metal jacket
full metal jackets
full monty
full moon
full moon maple
full moons

Literary usage of Full employment

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Global Employment: An International Investigation Into the Future of Work by Mihály Simai, Valentine M. Moghadam, Arvo Kuddo (1995)
"He raises strong doubts on the short-term reality of full employment, not only in India, but also in a global perspective. The Indian patterns also indicate ..."

2. Oecd Review of Agricultural Policies by OECD. (2006)
"Summary changes in factor incomes - 50% cut in South Africa's trade barriers with full employment and fiscal neutrality Source: Simulation results. ..."

3. A Typographical Gazetteer by Henry Cotton (1831)
"with full employment. At what period their typographical career commenced I have not been able to ascertain. Le Long mentions a Latin Psalter by cardinal ..."

4. Collection of the Most Celebrated Voyages and Travels from the Discovery of by Forster, R. P (1818)
"... and that we might have full employment, the mainsail blew loose, which obliged us to lower down the yard to secure the sail, and the fore-yard being ..."

5. The Works of William Robertson, D. D...: To which is Prefixed an Account of by William Robertson, Dugald Stewart (1827)
"... the literature and philosophy of that memorable period would have given full employment to those critical powers which he so eminently possessed, ..."

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