employment
English
Etymology
From employ (itself from Middle French employer, from Middle French empleier, from Latin implicō (“enfold, involve, be connected with”), itself from in- + plicō (“fold”)) + -ment
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɪmˈplɔɪmənt/, /ɛmˈplɔɪmənt/
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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.
- 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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Translations
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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