employment
English
editEtymology
editFrom employ (itself from Middle French employer, from Middle French empleier, from Latin implicō (“enfold, involve, be connected with”), itself from in- + plicō (“fold”)) + -ment.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editemployment (countable and uncountable, plural employments)
- The occupation or work for which one is used, and often paid.
- 1893 February (date written), Henry B[enjamin] Wheatley, “Particulars of the Life of Samuel Pepys”, in Samuel Pepys, Mynors Bright, transcriber, edited by Henry B. Wheatley, The Diary of Samuel Pepys […], volume I, London: George Bell & Sons […]; Cambridge: Deighton Bell & Co., published 1893, →OCLC, page xxvii:
- [I]t is certaine no man sees more of the Navye's Transactions than himselfe [the Clerk of the Acts], and possibly may speak as much to the project if required, or else he is a blockhead, and not fitt for that imployment.
- The act of employing.
- The personnel director handled the whole employment procedure
- The state of being employed.
- a. 1662 (date written), Thomas Fuller, “Cornwall”, in The History of the Worthies of England, London: […] J[ohn] G[rismond,] W[illiam] L[eybourne] and W[illiam] G[odbid], published 1662, →OCLC, page 202:
- […] King Henry [VIII] full fraught all thoſe vvith vvealth and revvards, vvhom he retained in his imployment.
- 1853 November–December, Herman Melville, “Bartleby”, in Billy Budd and Other Stories, London: John Lehmann, published 1951, →OCLC:
- 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.
- A purpose, a use.
- 1873, John Stuart Mill, Autobiography of John Stuart Mill:
- This new employment of his time caused no relaxation in his attention to my education.
- An activity to which one devotes time.
- (economics) The number or percentage of people at work.
Alternative forms
edit- imployment (obsolete)
Synonyms
editAntonyms
editDerived terms
edit- antiemployment
- at-will employment, at will employment
- co-employment
- employment agency
- employment at will, employment-at-will
- employment contract
- employment history
- employment tribunal
- full employment
- malemployment
- misemployment
- nonemployment
- outside employment
- overemployment
- preemployment
- reemployment
- self-employment
- subemployment
- underemployment
- written statement of employment
Related terms
editTranslations
editoccupation or work for which one is used, and often paid
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act of employing
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state of being employed
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purpose, use
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activity to which one devotes time
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number or percentage of people at work
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