employment

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   the occupation for which you are paid

   I am looking for employment.

2. 2
   noun

   the state of being employed or having a job

   they are looking for employment

3. 3
   noun

   The occupation or work for which one is used, and often paid.

   [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.

4. 4
   noun

   The act of employing.

   The personnel director handled the whole employment procedure

5. 5
   noun

   The state of being employed.

   […] King Henry [VIII] full fraught all thoſe vvith vvealth and revvards, vvhom he retained in his imployment.

6. 6
   noun

   A purpose, a use.

   This new employment of his time caused no relaxation in his attention to my education.

7. 7
   noun

   the act of using

8. 8
   noun

   the act of giving someone a job

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.