Employment Meaning
/ɪmˈplɔɪmənt/Definition, CEFR level B1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounThe occupation or work for which one is used, and often paid.
nounThe act of employing.
Sentence Examples
The master plan includes programs to provide employment as well as recreation.
Employment continued to lag.
All employees have a written contract of employment.
Synonyms & Antonyms
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CEFR Practice Quiz
Steady ____ can help people achieve financial independence.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The rate of ____ increased significantly after the new factory opened.
Word Origin & History
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.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"[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."
— 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:
"[…] King Henry [VIII] full fraught all thoſe vvith vvealth and revvards, vvhom he retained in his imployment."
— 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:
"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 November–December, Herman Melville, “Bartleby”, in Billy Budd and Other Stories, London: John Lehmann, published 1951, →OCLC:
"This new employment of his time caused no relaxation in his attention to my education."
— 1873, John Stuart Mill, Autobiography of John Stuart Mill:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
Steady ____ can help people achieve financial independence.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The rate of ____ increased significantly after the new factory opened.