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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