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Another word for employment

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employment

n.

The act of employing
hiring, using, calling, commissioning, contracting, awarding, occupying, engaging, retaining; see also use 1.
An occupation
job, profession, vocation; see job 1, profession 1, trade 2, work 2.

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Another word for employment

noun

The act of employing for wages:
engagement, hire. See get, work
The act of putting into play:
application, exercise, exertion, implementation, operation, play, usage, use, utilization. See used
The state of being employed:
employ, hire. See work
The condition of being put to use:
application, duty, service, use, utilization. See used
Activity pursued as a livelihood:
art, business, calling, career, craft, job, line, mÃ©tier, occupation, profession, pursuit, trade, vocation, work. (Slang) racket. (Archaic) employ. See action

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Call the employment office.
Stopping by the employment office, she contracted for temporary help to put up the fence.
Copper is not yet universally employed, price being the governing factor in its employment; moreover, the conducting quality of the iron used for telegraphic purposes has of late years been very greatly improved.
Per day, but only find employment, on an average, 230 days in the year.
I read one or two shallow books of travel in the intervals of my work, till that employment made me ashamed of myself, and I asked where it was then that I lived.

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