employment

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   Paid work, or the state of having a job

   She is looking for full-time employment.

2. 2
   noun

   The act of giving someone a job

   The personnel director handled the whole employment process.

3. 3
   noun

   The use of something for a particular purpose

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

Common collocations

• employment interview Noun + noun

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.

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