Vac vs Unemployment - What's the difference?
vac | unemployment |
(informal) A vacation.
* 1978 , (Lawrence Durrell), Livia'', Faber & Faber 1992 (''Avignon Quintet ), p. 324:
(informal) A vacuum cleaner.
To vacuum; to clean with a vacuum cleaner.
* 2010 , Alan Hollinghurst, The Folding Star (page 332)
The state of having no job; joblessness.
The phenomenon of joblessness in an economy.
The level of joblessness in an economy, often measured as a percentage of the workforce.
(countable) A type of joblessness due to a particular economic mechanism.
(countable) An instance or period of joblessness.
As nouns the difference between vac and unemployment
is that vac is (informal) a vacation while unemployment is the state of having no job; joblessness.As a verb vac
is to vacuum; to clean with a vacuum cleaner.vac
English
Noun
(en noun)- 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 .
Derived terms
* (vacuum cleaner) minivacVerb
(vack)- 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
* (l) ----unemployment
English
Noun
(IPA: /?n.?m?pl??.m?nt /)- Unemployment made Jack depressed.
- Unemployment has been considered a cause of crime.
- Unemployment was reported at 5.2% in May, up from 4.9% in April.
- All unemployments , seasonal, frictional, cyclical, classical, whatever, mean that you're out of work.
- Until them his life had consisted of low-paying jobs, numberous unemployments , and drug use.