employment

B1 Topic:Economics & Markets

US /ɪmˈplɔɪmənt/ See IPA manual

Freq #7454

Meanings

1

noun
Paid work, or the state of having a job

She is looking for full-time employment.
2

noun
The act of giving someone a job

The personnel director handled the whole employment process.
3

noun
The use of something for a particular purpose

The employment of new technology improved the factory's output.

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Synonyms

1 noun · paid work, or the state of... work employ

2 noun · the act of giving someone a... engagement

3 noun · the use of something for a... use

More hire

Opposites

disemploymentunemployment

Word family

Forms employments

Derived forms antiemploymentco-employmentemployment-at-willmalemploymentmisemploymentnonemploymentoveremploymentpreemploymentreemploymentself-employmentsubemploymentunderemployment

Related forms employ employable employed employee employer

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Phrases (1)

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employment interview
a meeting used to assess someone's suitability for a job

Noun + noun

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.

employer Middle French empleier Middle French implicō Latin

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# employment

**Type:** Word
**Level:** B1
**Part of speech:** noun
**IPA (US):** /ɪmˈplɔɪmənt/
**Frequency rank:** 7454

## Meanings
1. Paid work, or the state of having a job
2. The act of giving someone a job
3. The use of something for a particular purpose

## Examples
- She is looking for full-time employment.
- The personnel director handled the whole employment process.
- The employment of new technology improved the factory's output.

## Synonyms
- employ
- hire

## Antonyms
- disemployment
- unemployment

## Derived Forms
- antiemployment
- co-employment
- employment-at-will
- malemployment
- misemployment
- nonemployment
- overemployment
- preemployment
- reemployment
- self-employment
- subemployment
- underemployment

## Related Forms
- employ
- employable
- employed
- employee
- employer

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: employer
- Root: empleier
- Root: implicō

## 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.

## AI Etymology
Employment comes 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. In current use, the main senses are “Paid work, or the state of having a job” and “The act of giving someone a job”.

## Topics
- Economics & Markets
- Abstract Ideas

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