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Noun
Employment (countable and uncountable; plural Employments)
- A use, purpose
- 1873, John Stuart Mill, Autobiography of John Stuart Mill
- This new employment of his time caused no relaxation in his attention to my education.
- The act of employing
- The personnel director handled the whole employment procedure
- The state of being employed
- 1853 Melville, Herman Bartleby, the Scrivener, in Billy Budd, Sailor and Other Stories, New York: Penguin Books, 1968; reprint 1995 as Bartleby, ISBN 0 14 60.0012 9, p.3:
- At the period just preceding the advent of Bartleby, I had two persons as copyists in my employment, and a promising lad as an office-boy.
- The work or occupation for which one is used, and often paid
- An activity to which one devotes time
- (economics) The number or percentage of people at work
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Adjectives
unconscious; hazardous; individual; occasional; domestic; legitimate; remunerative;
regressive; useful; suitable; skillful; congenial; responsible; continuous; money-making; figurative; seasonable; inglorious;
obvious; temporary; lucrative; profitable;
diverse; military; justifiable;
regular;
creative;
initial;
systematic; gainful; mercantile.
Thesaurus
act, acting, action, active use, activism, activities, activity, affair, affairs, appliance, application, appointment, assignment, attendance, bag, behavior, berth, bespeaking, billet, booking, briefing, business, calling, commerce, concern, concernment, consumption, craft, dirty work, disposition, doing, donkeywork, drudgery, employ, engagement, engaging, enlistment, enrollment, enterprise, exercise, exercising, exertion, exploitation, fag, fatigue, function, functioning, gig, good use, grind, handiwork, handling, handwork, hard usage, hard use, hire, hiring, ill use, implementation, incumbency, industry, interest, job, labor, lick, lick of work, line, livelihood, lookout, management, manipulation, manual labor, matter, metier, ministration, ministry, mission, misuse, moil, moonlighting, movements, occupation, office, opening, operation, operations, peonage, place, play, position, post, practice, praxis, preengagement, profession, purpose, pursuit, racket, rat race, recruitment, reservation, retaining, retainment, rough usage, scut work, second job, serfdom, service, servitium, servitorship, servitude, situation, skill, slavery, spadework, station, stroke, stroke of work, sweat, swing, taking on, task, tendance, tenure, thing, tiresome work, toil, trade, travail, treadmill, undertaking, usage, use, using, using up, utilization, vacancy, vocation, work, working, workings, wrong use
Etymology
From to employ (itself from from Middle French employer (=modern), from Middle French empleier, from Latin implicare "to enfold, involve, be connected with", itself from in- "in" + plicare "to fold") + -ment
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the state of being employed
the work or occupation for which one is paid
an activity to which one devotes time
the number or percentage of people at work
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