employment

Definitions

1. The occupation or work for which one is used, and often paid.
   countable, uncountable
2. job, employment
3. The act of employing.
   countable, uncountable
4. use, application
5. The state of being employed.
   countable, uncountable
6. first-person singular present indicative of emplear
7. A purpose, a use.
   countable, uncountable
8. An activity to which one devotes time.
   countable, uncountable
9. The number or percentage of people at work.
   countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“[I]t is certaine no man sees more of the Navye's Transactions than himselfe [the Clerk of the Acts], and possibly may speak⟳ as much to the project if required, or else he is a blockhead, and not fitt for that imployment.”

“The personnel director handled the whole employment procedure”

“[…] King Henry [VIII] full fraught all thoſe vvith vvealth and revvards, vvhom he retained in his imployment.”

“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.”

“This new employment of his time caused no relaxation in his attention to my education.”

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