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unemployment benefit

 noun
     
Related topics: Employment, Welfare
unemployment benefit British English; unemployment benefits/compensation American English [uncountable]
BEPEW money paid regularly by the government to people who have no job
on unemployment benefit (=be getting unemployment benefit)
people on unemployment benefit
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