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employment

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Word definitions for employment in dictionaries

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Employment \Em*ploy"ment\, 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; ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-15c., "the spending of money," from Middle English emploien (see employ ) + -ment .

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A use, purpose 2 The act of employing 3 The state of being employed 4 The work or occupation for which one is used, and often paid 5 An activity to which one devotes time 6 (context economics English) The number or percentage of people at work

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
"Employment" is a classic science fiction story pioneering the concept of de-extinction by L. Sprague de Camp . It was first published in the magazine Astounding Science-Fiction for May, 1939. The story appeared under the pseudonym Lyman R. Lyon (the name ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. the state of being employed or having a job; "they are looking for employment"; "he was in the employ of the city" [syn: employ ] [ant: unemployment ] the occupation for which you are paid; "he is looking for employment"; "a lot of people are out of ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a contract of employment ( also an employment contract ) ▪ Make sure you fully understand your contract of employment. an advertising/employment/travel etc agency ▪ a local housing agency employment agency full employment ...

Usage examples of employment.

Hasina was being treated, Amani had found little time to worry about the future, but Zinsa knew it weighed heavily on her and hoped the offer of employment would ease her mind a bit.

Bragadin answered that De la Haye could take up his quarters with us in his palace, and that Bavois was to write to his protector, the Pope, entreating His Holiness to recommend him to the ambassador of Venice, who would then forward that recommendation to the Senate, and that Bavois could, in that way, feel sure of good employment.

By reference to the article on anthelmintics in this volume, other valuable vermifuges may be selected, and directions found for their employment.

Green priests were in such demand that even a mediocre one such as Arcas could choose from innumerable offers of employment.

Such intrepid virtue, which had escaped pure and unsullied from the intrigues courts, the habits of business, and the arts of his profession, reflects more lustre on the memory of Papinian, than all his great employments, his numerous writings, and the superior reputation as a lawyer, which he has preserved through every age of the Roman jurisprudence.

Belli emitted a long mouthful at that, which John understood to convey the shock Belli felt at the impropriety of the employment of such language in a holy place before and under holy pictures.

The drayman, the cartman, the man in the ditch and others whose employment is in the open air are exposed not alone by the character of the work in which they are engaged but also by reason of the fact that six days of the week, those in which they labor, of necessity, their clothing is poor and shabby and their persons are ill kept.

Apparently nothing came of this, and Casanova obtained no definite employment until 1776.

A violent contest ensued, in the course of which the house divided, and of fifty-seven peers who voted for the delay, forty-six were such as enjoyed preferment in the church, commissions in the army, or civil employments under the government.

Beginning in the sixteenth century, when the Ottoman Sunnis favored their Iraqi coreligionists in the matter of educational and employment opportunities, the Shias consistently have been denied political power.

The maids employed around the person of their comfortless mistress, the valet of Denbigh engaged in arranging a dry coat for his master--all suspended their employments to listen in breathless silence to the mournful melody of the song.

As the disease progresses, the loss of strength is more and more marked, the patient can no longer follow his usual employment, his spirits are depressed, and he gradually sinks, or tubercular matter is deposited in the lungs, and consumption is developed.

As the prostate gland becomes more irritated and inflamed from the natural progress of the disease, or from the irritation caused by the passage of instruments, or the employment of strong, harsh, stimulating diuretics, the urine becomes cloudy, and still later is found to have deposited during the night in the chamber utensil a quantity of thick, tenacious, and usually offensive mucus.

Putney brings an unusual degree of realistic empathy to his account of the training of Marine war dogs and their employment in the recapture of Guam, 1944.

As befitted her place of employment she was very conservatively dressed, wearing only a few electrostatically clinging sequins and pads.