Employment
[ɪm'plɒɪm(ə)nt;em-] or [ɪm'plɔɪmənt]
Definition
(noun.) the occupation for which you are paid; 'he is looking for employment'; 'a lot of people are out of work'.
(noun.) the act of giving someone a job.
(noun.) the state of being employed or having a job; 'they are looking for employment'; 'he was in the employ of the city'.
Typist: Weldon--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The act of employing or using; also, the state of being employed.
(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.
Editor: Lois
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Business, occupation, engagement, pursuit, AVOCATION, calling, profession, trade, craft.[2]. Service, agency, office, EMPLOY.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
This is not an auspicious dream. It implies depression in business circles and loss of employment to wage earners. It also denotes bodily illness. To dream of being out of work, denotes that you will have no fear, as you are always sought out for your conscientious fulfilment of contracts, which make you a desired help. Giving employment to others, indicates loss for yourself. All dreams of this nature may be interpreted as the above.
Typist: Pansy
Examples
- The first known application of the kind was made by Mr. Murdoch, an engineer in the employment of Messrs. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- Foreign policy is the natural employment of courts and monarchies. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- A worthy employment for a young lady's mind! Jane Austen. Emma.
- What, are you out of employment then? Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- To earn his bread he sought and found employment on a railway locomotive. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- It was the unhappiness of a fine brain that seeks employment. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- And by reason of the employment of such vision in the past, Edison is now able to see quite clearly through the forest of difficulties after eliminating them one by one. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- His employment may, upon most occasions, be as constant as he pleases. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- They are the work of servants and labourers who derive the principal part of their subsistence from some other employment. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- There is nothing like employment, active indispensable employment, for relieving sorrow. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- I have little doubt he would have preferred such an employment in his heart to all others. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- It was during the happy period of his employment in the factory that George had seen and married his wife. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- It was Christmas week: we took to no settled employment, but spent it in a sort of merry domestic dissipation. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Thirdly, the employment of the fulling-mill for thickening the cloth, instead of treading it in water. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Apart from debts and duns and all such drawbacks, I am not fit even for this employment. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- First, This equality can take place only in those employments which are well known, and have been long established in the neighbourhood. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Taxes upon the profits of stock, in particular employments, can never affect the interest of money. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- In the inferior employments, the sweets of labour consist altogether in the recompence of labour. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- If the profit is less, mercantile employments will draw capital from the improvement of land. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- In all the different employments of stock, the ordinary rate of profit varies more or less with the certainty or uncertainty of the returns. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- But if women are to have the same employments as men, they must have the same education--they must be taught music and gymnastics, and the art of war. Plato. The Republic.
- From eleven o'clock until luncheon, and from luncheon until dinner at six in the evening, the employments and amusements were various. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Inequalities arising from the nature of the employments themselves. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- She had planned other employments for herself: a letter to Edith, a good piece of Dante, a visit to the Higginses. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- Yet, although unhappy, he is not so utterly occupied by his own misery, but that he interests himself deeply in the employments of others. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- This diversion is only practised by those persons who are candidates for great employments, and high favour at court. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- They have the same employments--the only difference between them is that the one sex is stronger and the other weaker. Plato. The Republic.
- And why are mean employments and manual arts a reproach? Plato. The Republic.
- The profits of agriculture, however, seem to have no superiority over those of other employments in any part of Europe. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Every year the demand for servants and labourers would, in all the different classes of employments, be less than it had been the year before. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
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