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Eurozone unemployment

Vocabulary

statistical agency

organisation which collects and publishes data

persistent

continuing

in the shape of

in the form of

striking

remarkable

divergence

difference

the latter

last-mentioned

private-sector

companies not owned or run by the government

decline

process of getting worse

quarter

three months in a year

recession

period of reduced economic activity and higher unemployment (defined by economists as two consecutive quarters of economic decline)