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RELATED WORDS : employment agency employment agent employment agreement employment contract employment interview employment office full employment

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun employment has 4 senses

• employment(n = noun.state) employ - the state of being employed or having a job; "they are looking for employment"; "he was in the employ of the city"
is a kind of state
Antonym: unemployment

• employment(n = noun.act) work - the occupation for which you are paid; "he is looking for employment"; "a lot of people are out of work"
has particulars: coaching, coaching job, booking, engagement, ministry, navigation, sailing, seafaring, work load, workload, piecework, service, telecommuting, teleworking, services, public service, paper route
is a kind of business, job, line, line of work, occupation

• employment(n = noun.act) engagement - the act of giving someone a job; Array
is a kind of action
has particulars: shape-up, call-back, booking, reservation
Derived form verb employ₂

• employment(n = noun.act) exercise, usage, use, utilisation, utilization - the act of using; "he warned against the use of narcotic drugs"; "skilled in the utilization of computers"
is a kind of activity
has particulars: practice, play, abuse, misuse, development, exploitation, recycling, application, practical application
Derived form verb employ₁

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THESAURUS

employment

act, acting, action, active use, activism, activities, activity, affair, affairs, appliance, application, appointment, assignment, attendance, bag, behavior, berth, bespeaking, billet, booking, briefing, business, calling, commerce, concern, concernment, consumption, craft, dirty work, disposition, doing, donkeywork, drudgery, employ, engagement, engaging, enlistment, enrollment, enterprise, exercise, exercising, exertion, exploitation, fag, fatigue, function, functioning, gig, good use, grind, handiwork, handling, handwork, hard usage, hard use, hire, hiring, ill use, implementation, incumbency, industry, interest, job, labor, lick, lick of work, line, livelihood, lookout, management, manipulation, manual labor, matter, metier, ministration, ministry, mission, misuse, moil, moonlighting, movements, occupation, office, opening, operation, operations, peonage, place, play, position, post, practice, praxis, preengagement, profession, purpose, pursuit, racket, rat race, recruitment, reservation, retaining, retainment, rough usage, scut work, second job, serfdom, service, servitium, servitorship, servitude, situation, skill, slavery, spadework, station, stroke, stroke of work, sweat, swing, taking on, task, tendance, tenure, thing, tiresome work, toil, trade, travail, treadmill, undertaking, usage, use, using, using up, utilization, vacancy, vocation, work, working, workings, wrong use

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Business

N business, occupation, employment, pursuit, what one is doing, what one is about, affair, concern, matter, case, matter in hand, irons in the fire, thing to do, agendum, task, work, job, chore, errand, commission, mission, charge, care, duty, part, role, cue, province, function, lookout, department, capacity, sphere, orb, field, line, walk, walk of life, beat, round, routine, race, career, office, place, post, chargeship, incumbency, living, situation, berth, employ, service, engagement, undertaking, vocation, calling, profession, cloth, faculty, industry, art, industrial arts, craft, mystery, handicraft, trade, exercise, work, avocation, press of business, businesslike, workaday, professional, official, functional, busy, on hand, in hand, in one's hands, afoot, on foot, on the anvil, going on, acting, in the course of business, all in one's day's work, professionally Adj, a business with an income at its heels, amoto quaeramus seria ludo, par negotiis neque supra.

Use

N use, employ, employment, exercise, exercitation, application, appliance, adhibition, disposal, consumption, agency, usufruct, usefulness, benefit, recourse, resort, avail, utilization, service, wear, usage, in use, used, well-worn, well-trodden, useful, subservient.

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