employment
//ɪmˈplɔɪmənt//
Forms
- Plural
- employments
Definitions
1.The occupation or work for which one is used, and often paid.
2.The act of employing.
3.The state of being employed.
- The percentage of a country's population in employment used to be called "participation rate".
- 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.
4.A purpose, a use.
- This new employment of his time caused no relaxation in his attention to my education.
Frequency
Overall
Uncommon· #2485
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Uncommon
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
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Etymology
From employ (itself from Middle French employer
From Middle French empleier
From Latin implicō (“enfold, involve, be connected with”), itself from in- + plicō (“fold”)) + -ment.