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Break up the word unemployment into affixes and root on the chart below.

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The word "unemployment" has as literal meaning the lack of a firm and stable employment on the part of a person or group of people, for an indeterminate time that can last a longer or shorter period of time.

This word is made up of two affixes and a well-differentiated root: the root employ, which necessarily implies a reference to a person's work carried out in a given place and period, with specific tasks and a dependency relationship; the prefix un-, which implies the lack or lack of something; and the suffix -ment, which implies action. Therefore, "unemployment", broken down from this perspective, means "the action of not being an employee".

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