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Webster 1913 Edition
Employment
Em-ploy′ment
,Noun.
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.
Syn. – Work; business; occupation; vocation; calling; office; service; commission; trade; profession.
Webster 1828 Edition
Employment
EMPLOY'MENT
,Noun.
1.
Occupation; business; that which engages the head or hands; as agricultural employments; mechanical employments. Men, whose employment is to make sport and amusement for others, are always despised.2.
Office; public business or trust; agency or service for another or for the public. The secretary of the treasury has a laborious and responsible employment. He is in the employment of government.Definition 2024
employment
employment
English
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.
- 1873, John Stuart Mill, Autobiography of John Stuart Mill
- The act of employing
- The personnel director handled the whole employment procedure
- The state of being employed
- 1853, Herman Melville, 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.
- 1853, Herman Melville, 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:
- 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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use, purpose
the act of employing
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the state of being employed
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the work or occupation for which one is paid
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an activity to which one devotes time
the number or percentage of people at work
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