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Between paychecks, with a full schedule of refreshing the inbox and questioning everything.
means Without paid employment, whether by layoff, choice, or the economy's casual cruelty.
from Plain English compounding: job plus the suffix less, meaning without. Job itself once meant a small piece of work, a cartload, a chore done for hire.
Stat speakPowers the unemployment rate economists obsess over
Voluntary versionRetirees and lottery winners technically qualify too
Word ageUsed as an adjective since the 1880s