employment
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
employment/ɪmˈplɔɪmənt/
▶noun
- 1 the action of giving work to someone.
■ a person's work or profession.
- 2 the utilization of something.
'employment' also found in these Oxford entries:
bullet
- card
- collective bargaining
- DE
- dismiss
- emolument
- employ
- golden handcuffs
- gratuity
- idle
- insecure
- in-service
- job
- lump
- moonlight
- mop
- NEET
- notice
- outplacement
- pension
- pink slip
- portfolio
- private means
- sack
- self-employed
- semi-retired
- separate
- service
- severance
- sickness benefit
- sign
- snug
- supply-side
- temp
- tenure
- tenure track
- terminate
- Trade Board
- unemployable
- unsigned
- vocation
- vocational
- wage slave
- wit
- work experience
- working
- workpeople
- work release
