Employment Definition

ĕm-ploimənt
noun
An employing or being employed.
Webster's New World
The number or percentage of persons gainfully employed.
Webster's New World
The thing at which one is employed; work; occupation; profession; job.
Webster's New World
Purpose to which something is put.
Webster's New World

An activity to which one devotes time.

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Other Word Forms of Employment

Noun

Singular:
employment
Plural:
employments

Origin of Employment

  • From to employ (itself from Middle French employer (=modern), from Middle French empleier, from Latin implicare "to enfold, involve, be connected with", itself from in- "in" + plicare "to fold") + -ment

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Employment Sentence Examples

  • Call the employment office.

  • Stopping by the employment office, she contracted for temporary help to put up the fence.

  • I despised my employment and Howie was unemployed.

  • Copper is not yet universally employed, price being the governing factor in its employment; moreover, the conducting quality of the iron used for telegraphic purposes has of late years been very greatly improved.

  • I read one or two shallow books of travel in the intervals of my work, till that employment made me ashamed of myself, and I asked where it was then that I lived.

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Words Starting With

EEMEMP

Words Ending With

TNTENT

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employment

Words Starting With E and Ending With T

Starts With E & Ends With TStarts With EM & Ends With TStarts With E & Ends With NT

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10 Letter Words10 Letter Words Starting With E10 Letter Words Ending With T