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.

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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