| employment | | |
| n. (state) | 1. employ, employment | the state of being employed or having a job.; "they are looking for employment"; "he was in the employ of the city" |
| ~ state | the way something is with respect to its main attributes.; "the current state of knowledge"; "his state of health"; "in a weak financial state" |
| n. (act) | 2. employment, work | the occupation for which you are paid.; "he is looking for employment"; "a lot of people are out of work" |
| ~ coaching, coaching job | the job of a professional coach. |
| ~ booking, engagement | employment for performers or performing groups that lasts for a limited period of time.; "the play had bookings throughout the summer" |
| ~ ministry | the work of a minister of religion.; "he is studying for the ministry" |
| ~ sailing, seafaring, navigation | the work of a sailor. |
| ~ work load, workload | work that a person is expected to do in a specified time. |
| ~ piecework | work paid for according to the quantity produced. |
| ~ job, line of work, occupation, business, line | the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money.; "he's not in my line of business" |
| ~ service | employment in or work for another.; "he retired after 30 years of service" |
| ~ telecommuting, teleworking | employment at home while communicating with the workplace by phone or fax or modem. |
| ~ services | performance of duties or provision of space and equipment helpful to others.; "the mayor tried to maintain city services"; "the medical services are excellent" |
| ~ public service | employment within a government system (especially in the civil service). |
| ~ paper route | the job of delivering newspapers regularly. |
| n. (act) | 3. employment, engagement | the act of giving someone a job. |
| ~ action | something done (usually as opposed to something said).; "there were stories of murders and other unnatural actions" |
| ~ shape-up | a way of hiring longshoremen by the day; applicants gather around a union boss who selects those to be hired. |
| ~ call-back | the recall of an employee after a layoff. |
| ~ booking, reservation | the act of reserving (a place or passage) or engaging the services of (a person or group).; "wondered who had made the booking" |
| n. (act) | 4. employment, exercise, usage, use, utilisation, utilization | the act of using.; "he warned against the use of narcotic drugs"; "skilled in the utilization of computers" |
| ~ activity | any specific behavior.; "they avoided all recreational activity" |
| ~ practice | the exercise of a profession.; "the practice of the law"; "I took over his practice when he retired" |
| ~ play | utilization or exercise.; "the play of the imagination" |
| ~ misuse, abuse | improper or excessive use.; "alcohol abuse"; "the abuse of public funds" |
| ~ exploitation, development | the act of making some area of land or water more profitable or productive or useful.; "the development of Alaskan resources"; "the exploitation of copper deposits" |
| ~ recycling | the act of processing used or abandoned materials for use in creating new products. |
| ~ application, practical application | the act of bringing something to bear; using it for a particular purpose.; "he advocated the application of statistics to the problem"; "a novel application of electronics to medical diagnosis" |
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