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- noun Plural form of
jobcentre .
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Examples
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Two women browse one of the first jobcentres in 1950.
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It is the most obvious lunacy, since none of the millions of foreign tourists who come here want to admire our jobcentres.
Arts funding cuts: the artless, the tactless and the absurd Simon Hoggart 2010
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Courts, museums, libraries and jobcentres have been closed.
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The Department of Work and Pensions employs 80,872 employees in the state-owned jobcentres, which will have to be reduced to 76,500 over the next year.
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Lose 270,000 public sector jobs over five years; jobcentres privatised and benefits payment and tax system integrated, cutting 50,000 jobs; 25,000 jobs cut from the Treasury; scrap future Eurofighter jet orders and upgrades.
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Freud and Miller want to pilot the system for disabled and lone parents at jobcentres across Britain from next April with a view to rolling it into the running of the universal credit from 2013.
Welfare reform: government backs system of working in 'slivers of time' Nicholas Watt Chief political correspondent 2010
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The local targets are agreed with central government after consultation with bodies such as local police, health service and jobcentres.
Archive 2008-07-01 Not a sheep 2008
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The Assembly Government is developing policies to go hand in hand with the Work and Pensions Department through its network of jobcentres, and provide more purposeful support for individuals and employers.
Archive 2008-08-01 2008
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Way beyond all this now and we need to send them back to their jobcentres on June 22nd without any pay or pensions.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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The Assembly Government is developing policies to go hand in hand with the Work and Pensions Department through its network of jobcentres, and provide more purposeful support for individuals and employers.
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