employment

  • 21employment */*/*/ — UK [ɪmˈplɔɪmənt] / US noun [uncountable] 1) work that you are paid regularly to do for a person or company After graduation, she found employment with a local finance company. a contract of employment a) a situation in which someone has regular… …

    English dictionary

  • 22employment — The act of employing or being employed. The occupation, business, or profession to which one devotes his services, time, and attention, and which he depends upon for livelihood or profit. Lyons Thomas Hardware Co. v Perry Stove Mfg. Co. 86 Tex… …

    Ballentine's law dictionary

  • 23employment — The supply of labour by persons of either sex for the production and processing of all primary products (such as the characteristic products of agriculture, forestry, and fishing); the processing of primary commodities to produce such goods as… …

    Dictionary of sociology

  • 24employment —   Hana, oihana, ho ohana.    ♦ Steady employment, hana pa a.    ♦ Employment committee, kōmike imi hana.    ♦ To accept employment, lawe i ka hana.    ♦ To begin employment, komo i ka hana …

    English-Hawaiian dictionary

  • 25employment — noun 1) she found employment as a clerk Syn: work, service, labor; a job, a post, a position, a situation, an occupation, a profession, a trade, a line of work, a calling, a vocation, a craft, a pursuit; archaic employ 2) …

    Thesaurus of popular words

  • 26employment — /ɪm plɔɪmənt/ noun regular paid work ♦ to be without employment to have no work ♦ to find someone alternative employment to find another job for someone ▪▪▪ ‘…the blue collar unions are the people who stand to lose most in terms of employment… …

    Dictionary of banking and finance

  • 27employment — Act of employing or state of being employed; that which engages or occupies; that which consumes time or attention; also an occupation, profession, trade, post or business. Hinton v. Columbia River Packers Ass n, C.C.A.Or., 117 F.2d 310. Includes …

    Black's law dictionary

  • 28employment — Act of employing or state of being employed; that which engages or occupies; that which consumes time or attention; also an occupation, profession, trade, post or business. Hinton v. Columbia River Packers Ass n, C.C.A.Or., 117 F.2d 310. Includes …

    Black's law dictionary

  • 29employment — n. 1 the act of employing or the state of being employed. 2 a person s regular trade or profession. Phrases and idioms: employment agency a business that finds employers or employees for those seeking them. employment office (formerly employment… …

    Useful english dictionary

  • 30employment — noun Date: 15th century 1. use, purpose 2. a. activity in which one engages or is employed < seeking gainful employment > b. an instance of such activity 3. the act of employing ; the state of being employed < employment of a pen in sketching > …

    New Collegiate Dictionary