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Definition of unemployment benefits noun from the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary

unemployment benefits

noun

[plural] (also unemployment compensation, unemployment [uncountable])

money paid by the government to someone who is unemployed people on (= receiving) unemployment benefits Applications for unemployment benefits dropped last month.

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