different between vac vs unemployment

English

Etymology

Abbreviations.

Noun

vac (plural vacs)

1. (informal) A vacation.
   • 1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia, Faber & Faber 1992 (Avignon Quintet), p. 324:

     It was to be their last term at Oxford and Hilary had incited them both to journey with him to Provence for the long vac.

2. (informal) A vacuum cleaner.
3. (informal) Clipping of vaccine.

Derived terms

• (vacuum cleaner) minivac

Verb

vac (third-person singular simple present vacs, present participle vacking, simple past and past participle vacked)

1. To vacuum; to clean with a vacuum cleaner.
   • 2010, Alan Hollinghurst, The Folding Star (page 332)

     I went on to how Harold used to work in security on the building; he used to see Andy in the underground car-park vacking the sick out of the Merc.

Anagrams

• ACV, AVC, CVA, Cav.

Huave

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish vaca. Doublet of wacüx.

Noun

vac

1. cow

References

• Stairs Kreger, Glenn Albert; Scharfe de Stairs, Emily Florence; Olvaries Oviedo, Proceso; Ponce Villanueva, Tereso; Comonfort Llave, Lorenzo (1981) Diccionario huave de San Mateo del Mar (Serie de vocabularios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 24)?^[1] (in Spanish), México, D.F.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, page 177

Veps

Etymology

Related to Finnish vatsa.

Noun

vac

1. belly

English

Etymology

un- +? employment

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n.?m?pl??.m?nt/

Noun

unemployment (countable and uncountable, plural unemployments)

1. The state of having no job; joblessness.

   Unemployment made Jack depressed.

2. The phenomenon of joblessness in an economy.

   Unemployment has been considered a cause of crime.

3. The level of joblessness in an economy, often measured as a percentage of the workforce.

   Unemployment was reported at 5.2% in May, up from 4.9% in April.

4. (countable) A type of joblessness due to a particular economic mechanism.

   All unemployments, seasonal, frictional, cyclical, classical, whatever, mean that you're out of work.

5. (countable) An instance or period of joblessness.

   Until then his life had consisted of low-paying jobs, numberous unemployments, and drug use.

Synonyms

• joblessness, worklessness, unwork

Antonyms

• employment

Derived terms

Related terms

• unemployed

Translations

Further reading

• "unemployment" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 325.