About The Word Employment
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Employment
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What's The Definition Of Employment?
[n] the occupation for which you are paid; "he is looking for employment"; "a lot of people are out of work"
[n] the act of using; "he warned against the use of narcotic drugs"; "skilled in the utilization of computers" [n] the act of giving someone a job [n] the state of being employed or having a job; "they are looking for employment"; "he was in the employ of the city" Synonyms | Synonyms for Employment: employ | exercise | usage | use | utilisation | utilization | work Related Terms | Find terms related to Employment: 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 See Also | abuse | action | activity | application | booking | business | call-back | coaching | coaching job | development | engagement | exploitation | job | line | line of work | misuse | navigation | occupation | piecework | play | practical application | practice | public service | recycling | reservation | sailing | seafaring | service | services | shape-up | state | telecommuting | teleworking | workload Employment In Webster's Dictionary \Em*ploy"ment\, n.
1. The act of employing or using; also, the state of being
employed.
2. That which engages or occupies; that which consumes time
or attention; office or post of business; service; as,
agricultural employments; mechanical employments; public
employments; in the employment of government.
Cares are employments, and without employ The soul
is on a rack. --Young.
Syn: Work; business; occupation; vocation; calling; office;
service; commission; trade; profession.
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