Employment

Noun

 * 1) A use, purpose
 * 2) * 1873, John Stuart Mill, Autobiography of John Stuart Mill
 * This new employment of his time caused no relaxation in his attention to my education.
 * 1) The act of employing
 * ''The personnel director handled the whole employment procedure
 * 1) The state of being employed
 * 1853 Melville, Herman Bartleby, the Scrivener, in Billy Budd, Sailor and Other Stories, New York: Penguin Books, 1968; reprint 1995 as Bartleby, ISBN 0 14 60.0012 9, p.3:
 * At the period just preceding the advent of Bartleby, I had two persons as copyists in my employment, and a promising lad as an office-boy.
 * 1) The work or occupation for which one is used, and often paid
 * 2) An activity to which one devotes time
 * 3)  The number or percentage of people at work

Synonyms

 * employ
 * hire

Antonyms

 * unemployment
 * underemployment

Related terms

 * employ
 * employable
 * employed
 * employee
 * employer

Adjectives
unconscious; hazardous; individual; occasional; domestic; legitimate; remunerative; regressive; useful; suitable; skillful; congenial; responsible; continuous; money-making; figurative; seasonable; inglorious; obvious; temporary; lucrative; profitable; diverse;  military;   justifiable; regular; creative; initial; systematic; gainful; mercantile.

Thesaurus
act, acting, action, active use, activism, activities, activity, affair, affairs, appliance, application, appointment, assignment, attendance, bag, behavior, berth, bespeaking, billet, booking, briefing, business, calling, commerce, concern, concernment, consumption, craft, dirty work, disposition, doing, donkeywork, drudgery, employ, engagement, engaging, enlistment, enrollment, enterprise, exercise, exercising, exertion, exploitation, fag, fatigue, function, functioning, gig, good use, grind, handiwork, handling, handwork, hard usage, hard use, hire, hiring, ill use, implementation, incumbency, industry, interest, job, labor, lick, lick of work, line, livelihood, lookout, management, manipulation, manual labor, matter, metier, ministration, ministry, mission, misuse, moil, moonlighting, movements, occupation, office, opening, operation, operations, peonage, place, play, position, post, practice, praxis, preengagement, profession, purpose, pursuit, racket, rat race, recruitment, reservation, retaining, retainment, rough usage, scut work, second job, serfdom, service, servitium, servitorship, servitude, situation, skill, slavery, spadework, station, stroke, stroke of work, sweat, swing, taking on, task, tendance, tenure, thing, tiresome work, toil, trade, travail, treadmill, undertaking, usage, use, using, using up, utilization, vacancy, vocation, work, working, workings, wrong use

Etymology
From to employ (itself from from employer (=modern), from  empleier, from  implicare "to enfold, involve, be connected with", itself from in- "in" + plicare "to fold") + -ment

Translations

 * Dutch: benutting, gebruik, nut , emplooi
 * Greek: χρήση


 * Isoko:
 * Italian: impiego
 * Swedish: användning


 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 就業, 就业, 僱用 or 僱傭,
 * Dutch: aanwerving, tewerkstelling
 * Finnish:
 * German: Anstellung
 * Greek: πρόσληψη, εργοδοσία, εργοδότηση


 * Hungarian:
 * Italian: assunzione
 * Japanese:
 * Macedonian: вработување
 * Russian: трудоустройство
 * Serbian: zaposlenje, zaposlenost
 * Swedish: anställning


 * Arabic: وظيفة, توظيف
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 就業, 就业, 僱用 or 僱傭,
 * Dutch: tewerkstelling
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:, Erwerbstätigkeit
 * Greek: ,
 * Hungarian:


 * Irish:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Korean: 고용 (僱用),
 * Macedonian: вработеност
 * Russian: трудоустройство, занятость
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Serbian: zaposlenje, zaposlenost
 * Swedish: anställning
 * Vietnamese: việc làm


 * Armenian: ,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, ,
 * Czech:
 * Dutch: emplooi, werk , benutting
 * Finnish: ansiotyö
 * French: ,
 * German:


 * Greek: ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian: impiego
 * Japanese:, 就業,
 * Russian:, ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: ,
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish: anställning
 * Vietnamese: việc làm


 * Dutch: emplooi
 * Greek: ,


 * Hungarian:


 * Czech:
 * Dutch: tewerkstellingsgraad (proportion), tewerkstellingscijfer (number)


 * Finnish:
 * Italian: occupazione
 * Russian: занятость


 * : emploi


 * : Gebrauch, Benützung