employment
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From to employ (itself from 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 (uncountable)
- A use, purpose
- I expect you'll put my gift to good employ!
- The act of employing
- The personnel director handled the whole employment procedure
- The state of being employed
- 1853 Melville, Herman Bartleby, the Scrivener, in Billy Budd, Sailor and Other Stories, New York: Penguin Books, 1968; reprint 1995 as Bartleby, ISBN 0 14 60.0012 9, p.3:
- At the period just preceding the advent of Bartleby, I had two persons as copyists in my employment, and a promising lad as an office-boy.
- 1853 Melville, Herman Bartleby, the Scrivener, in Billy Budd, Sailor and Other Stories, New York: Penguin Books, 1968; reprint 1995 as Bartleby, ISBN 0 14 60.0012 9, p.3:
- The work or occupation for which one is used, and often paid
- An activity to which one devotes time
- (economics) The number or percentage of people at work
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use, purpose
the act of employing
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the state of being employed
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the work or occupation for which one is paid
an activity to which one devotes time
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the number or percentage of people at work
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