'Employment' definitions:
Definition of 'employment'
(from WordNet)
noun
The state of being employed or having a job; "they are looking for employment"; "he was in the employ of the city" [syn: employment, employ] [ant: unemployment]
noun
The occupation for which you are paid; "he is looking for employment"; "a lot of people are out of work" [syn: employment, work]
noun
The act of giving someone a job [syn: employment, engagement]
noun
The act of using; "he warned against the use of narcotic drugs"; "skilled in the utilization of computers" [syn: use, usage, utilization, utilisation, employment, exercise]
Definition of 'Employment'
From: GCIDE
- Employment \Em*ploy"ment\, n.
- 1. The act of employing or using; also, the state of being employed. [1913 Webster]
- 2. That which engages or occupies; that which consumes time or attention; office or post of business; service; as, agricultural employments; mechanical employments; public employments; in the employment of government. [1913 Webster]
- Cares are employments, and without employ The soul is on a rack. --Young.
- Syn: Work; business; occupation; vocation; calling; office; service; commission; trade; profession. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'employment'
From: Moby 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