full employment

noun

a state in which the labour force and other economic resources of a country are utilized to their maximum

full employment

The condition that exists when all who want work can find jobs. Because some individuals will always be between jobs, full employment does not mean that one hundred percent of the workforce is employed. Rather, it is customarily defined as ninety-six percent of the total potential workforce.

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It is supposed to fight inflation while promoting full employment.

Full employment—which is hardly a priority for Democrats—is nowhere on the GOP agenda.

So we remain far short of full employment for the third reason.

The time to begin the budget cuts is after the United States resumes full employment and normal economic growth, not before.

Even after American returns to full employment, the outlook for wages is grim.

The officers also found full employment in the various observations to which their attention was directed.

During the day, he felt in his usual health; and, therefore, he continued in full employment.

The Benedictine rule would appear to have been framed with the idea of giving full employment to every inmate of the monastery.

Your estate and the Courts will find you full employment; and your mind, well occupied, will be quiet.

When in full employment the joint earnings of the family amounted to 80s.

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