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  • noun Plural form of Jobcentre.

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Examples

  • Workers will be promised the right to take over public sector services such as Jobcentres and nursing teams and turn them into a co-operative and a new programme will be created to help entrepreneurs turn their ideas into reality.

    The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed 2010

  • Mark Serwotka, general secretary of the Public and Commercial Services union, said: "We have already seen parts of the Civil Service cut to the bone, which has affected service delivery and hampered the government's response to the recession in areas such as Jobcentres and welfare.

    Top stories from Times Online 2009

  • Such a waste in a case like this, when many hours of harmless family televisual entertainment (and/or a very popular website) could be had from little cameras covering the Jobcentres patronised by our erstwhile ‘leaders’.

    Archive 2009-02-01 Dungeekin 2009

  • Jobcentres and employers urged to value volunteering with a day off

    Phil Redmond disenchanted by 'big society' progress in Liverpool 2011

  • Such a waste in a case like this, when many hours of harmless family televisual entertainment (and/or a very popular website) could be had from little cameras covering the Jobcentres patronised by our erstwhile ‘leaders’.

    Blatancy Award Dungeekin 2009

  • You would expect that during these sunny times, the number of long-term unemployed people would have fallen, as those who had not had jobs for years got up from their sofas and went out to the Jobcentres to try to find work.

    Azeem Ibrahim: Britain Cannot Go On Paying So Many People Not To Work 2010

  • Will you promise not to close any more Jobcentres during the recession?

    Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me 2009

  • Trying to get some of the nearly 6 million benefit claimants into any available jobs should be the foremost priority for Jobcentres over the next few years.

    Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me 2009

  • Will you promise not to close any more Jobcentres during the recession?

    So what now, Yvette? 2009

  • Trying to get some of the nearly 6 million benefit claimants into any available jobs should be the foremost priority for Jobcentres over the next few years.

    Politicking on the backs of the poorest 2009

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