employment

Employment is what you do as a paying job. (noun)

An example of employment is working for a coffee shop.

Employment means the number or percentage of people who have jobs. (noun)

An example of employment is the percentage of citizens with paying jobs listed state by state.

See employment in Webster's New World College Dictionary

noun

See employment in American Heritage Dictionary 4

(ĕm-ploiˈmənt)

noun

a. The act of employing.
b. The state of being employed.
The work in which one is engaged; occupation.
An activity to which one devotes time.
The percentage or number of people gainfully employed: “a vicious spiral of rising prices under full employment” (William Henry Beveridge).

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