Noun

(wikipedia employment)

A use, purpose

* 1873 , John Stuart Mill, Autobiography of John Stuart Mill

This new employment of his time caused no relaxation in his attention to my education.

The act of employing

''The personnel director handled the whole employment procedure

The state of being employed

* 1853 , Herman Melville, Bartleby, the Scrivener'', in ''Billy Budd, Sailor and Other Stories'', New York: Penguin Books, 1968; reprint 1995 as ''Bartleby , ISBN 0 14 60.0012 9, p.3:

At the period just preceding the advent of Bartleby, I had two persons as copyists in my employment , and a promising lad as an office-boy.

The work or occupation for which one is used, and often paid

An activity to which one devotes time

(economics) The number or percentage of people at work

Noun

A battle, a fight (often one in which weapons are used); a struggle for victory.

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*:"My tastes," he said, still smiling, "incline me to the garishly sunlit side of this planet." And, to tease her and arouse her to combat : "I prefer a farandole to a nocturne; I'd rather have a painting than an etching; Mr. Whistler bores me with his monochromatic mud; I don't like dull colours, dull sounds, dull intellects;."

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