noun which may take the genitive case particle 'no', noun
wandering; unemployed; drifting
Describes a state of being adrift without a fixed home or job, often with a literary or slightly old-fashioned feel. Commonly used in the phrase 浪々の身.
彼は浪々の身で各地を転々とした。
He wandered from place to place, drifting and jobless.
浪々の生活を送る。
Lead a wandering, unsettled life.
無職 is a neutral, modern term for 'unemployed'; 浪々 carries a literary, somewhat romanticized nuance of drifting without purpose.
The exact derivation is uncertain. The kanji 浪 means 'wave' or 'wandering', and the reduplication 浪々 intensifies the sense of drifting or being adrift.