Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Wiktionary
n. An organisation that matches employer to employee.
WordNet
n. an agency that finds people to fill particular jobs or finds jobs for unemployed people [syn: employment office]
Wikipedia
An employment agency is an organization which matches employers to employees. In all developed countries, there is a publicly funded employment agency and multiple private businesses which act as employment agencies.
Usage examples of "employment agency".
She wanted to report her dismissal of some former crew to the employment agency, with her reasons, and find out if Sirkin's friend had registered for employment yet.
A year later she'd graduated from Bennington and come to New York to work as a receptionist in an employment agency, and so he'd seen her in New York, once or twice, when he passed through.
It was for this reason that an employment agency in Rome, in reality a CIA subsidiary, had placed him at the Cairo University as an Arabic-speaking instructor of American Literature.
And an employment agency's fee of $290, deducted over the first seven weeks, from my salary.
The Ada Twomey Domestic Employment Agency on East Second Street proved to be all that the name and location implied.
Both were registered with Guntzel and Stem, the leading technical employment agency in Germany.
As soon as you're registered, go to the Fair Play Employment Agency, and they'll take care of you.
The employment agency that is used by DigitTech already had our agents on their books.
Shortly after registering with an employment agency, she was hired to work for the Morrows.
What did someone like Rydell look bike to an employment agency's computer system?
Just Sonya, the empty rectangle of her desk, sketchy details suggesting an office, and the employment agency's logo behind her on the wall.
There is also a hippy-run employment agency on Haight Street and anyone needing part-time labor or some kind of specialized work can call and order as many freaks as he needs.
And here was Marsh Blues sitting in an employment agency thinking that he was going to change everything….
Begg had been hired by Leggett, through an employment agency, as housekeeper in the spring of 1921.