function vs unemployment

function

noun
  • What something does or is used for. 

  • The physiological activity of an organ or body part. 

  • A routine that receives zero or more arguments and may return a result. 

  • The role of a social practice in the continued existence of the group. 

  • An official or social occasion. 

  • A party. 

  • The characteristic behavior of a chemical compound. 

  • A relation in which each element of the domain is associated with exactly one element of the codomain. 

  • A professional or official position. 

  • A relation where one thing is dependent on another for its existence, value, or significance. 

  • Something which is dependent on or stems from another thing; a result or concomitant. 

verb
  • To have a function. 

  • To carry out a function; to be in action. 

unemployment

noun
  • An instance or period of joblessness. 

  • The level of joblessness in an economy, often measured as a percentage of the workforce. 

  • The state of having no job; joblessness. 

  • A type of joblessness due to a particular economic mechanism. 

  • The phenomenon of joblessness in an economy. 

How often have the words function and unemployment occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )