Other Words from nonfarm

non-farming \ ˌnän-ˈfär-miŋ

\ or nonfarming adjective

non-farming activities a nonfarming family

Examples of nonfarm in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web In the long term, gig work could add up to 90 million jobs to India’s nonfarm economy, and account for $250 billion of transactions, according to a report from the Boston Consulting Group and Michael and Susan Dell Foundation last year. — Megha Mandavia, WSJ, 29 July 2022 These include real personal income less transfers, nonfarm payroll employment, employment as measured by the household survey, real personal consumption expenditures, wholesale-retail sales adjusted for price changes, and industrial production. — Ben Carlson, Fortune, 23 July 2022 In March of 2022, nonfarm payrolls increased by 431,000. — Tammy Homegardner, Forbes, 19 May 2022 During the Great Recession, between 2007 and 2009, nonfarm employment dropped by 6.8 million jobs while the unemployment rate rose from 4.8% to 9.6%, according to the Federal Reserve of St. Louis. — Max Zahn, ABC News, 29 June 2022 Idaho’s nonfarm jobs exceeded expectations with an increase of 3,000 jobs to 815,500 in April. — From Usa Today Network And Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 23 May 2022 That would exempt the employers of about two-thirds of the nonfarm workers in the U.S. — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 3 May 2021 The leisure and hospitality sector, which used to employ more than a quarter of the region’s nonfarm workers, ground to a halt last spring. — Katherine Sayre, WSJ, 18 Mar. 2021 The state’s unemployment rate has dropped to 5.5% as about 5,400 nonfarm workers regained jobs in October, officials said Friday. — From Usa Today Network And Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 23 Nov. 2020 See More

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