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/ɛmplˈɔɪmənt/ /ɪmplˈɔɪmənt/ Listen

noun

Employment n.

The act of employing or using; also, the state of being employed.

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."

Synonyms: Work; business; occupation; vocation; calling; office; service; commission; trade; profession.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Employment" Quotes from Famous Books

... from giving food to the people of Ireland, in my opinion the measures of her Majesty's ministers will take away from the people of Ireland their food, by destroying the profits of their only manufacture—the manufacture of corn—and injuring their agriculture; depriving them of employment; in fact, by taking away from them the very means of procuring subsistence. Sir, I cannot see how the repeal of those laws affecting corn can be In any way connected with the suppression of outrage and the protection of life. What is this but to say, that unless we have a free trade in corn, ...

— Lord George Bentinck - A Political Biography • Benjamin Disraeli

... the genealogy is clearly though unostentatiously shown by the employment of the names 'Jesus Christ' and 'Christ,' while throughout the rest of this Gospel the name used habitually is Jesus. In verse 1 we have the full title proclaimed at the very beginning; then in verse 16, 'Jesus who is called Christ' repeats ...

— Expositions of Holy Scripture - Ezekiel, Daniel, and the Minor Prophets. St Matthew Chapters I to VIII • Alexander Maclaren

... factory gives employment to three hundred, whilst there were only twenty in Noroe at the time of which you speak," ...

— The Waif of the "Cynthia" • Andre Laurie and Jules Verne

... Limoges ware in the town. Afterwards he resold it at a fine profit; meantime he placed it under the superintendence of his father-in-law, who, in spite of his seventy-two years, counted for much in the return of prosperity to the establishment, who himself renewed his youth in the employment. Graslin was then able to attend to his legitimate business of banking without anxiety ...

— The Village Rector • Honore de Balzac

... had been under what is commonly called the "spoils system." "To the victor belong the spoils," had been the old motto, which generally meant that the party happening to be in power could do as it pleased about dealing out employment to those under it. A worker might have been ever so faithful in the discharge of his duties, but if the administration was changed, he ran the risk of losing his position without ...

— American Boy's Life of Theodore Roosevelt • Edward Stratemeyer

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