Look up: employment

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   employment
   [n] - the state of being employed or having a job 2. [n] - the act of giving someone a job 3. [n] - the occupation for which you are paid
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   employment
   the act of employing.. Category: Economics
   Found on http://www.mijnwoordenboek.nl/definition
   
   
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   Employment
   Em·ploy'ment noun 1. The act of employing or using; also, the state of being employed. 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. « Cares are employments , and wit ...
   Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/E/31
   
   
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   employment
   The state of being engaged in an activity or service for wages or salary. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...
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   employment
   noun the occupation for which you are paid; `he is looking for employment`; `a lot of people are out of work`
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   employment
   employ noun the state of being employed or having a job; `they are looking for employment`; `he was in the employ of the city`
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   Employment
   `Employment` is a contract between two parties, one being the `employer` and the other being the `employee`. An `employee` may be defined as: `A person in the service of another under any contract of hire, express or implied, oral or written, where the employer has the power or right to control and direct the employee in the material details of how the work is to be performed.` Black's Law Dictionary page 471 (5th ed. 1979). In a commercial sett...
   Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Employment
   
   
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   Employment
   • (n.) 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. • (n.) The act of employing or using; also, the state of being employed.
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   employment
   (from the article `Immigration`s Economic Impact`) ...even higher, at 19.4%. Immigrants made up approximately half of the 1990s job growth and added 2.3 million new workers during the slower ... Another major impact on newspaper revenues was the ongoing shift of employment advertising from print to online. While 69% of major American .....
   Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/e/27
   
   
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    Employment
    People working for pay or in a family-owned enterprise or farm. Much more specific definitions are used for measuring employment by national statistical agencies such as the US Bureau of Labor Statistics. Contrasts with unemployment.
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    employment
    
    1. the state of being employed or having a job
    2. the occupation for which you are paid
    3. the act of giving someone a job
    4. the act of using
    
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