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

(en noun)

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, passage="It hath been objected by some that the Clarke of the Acts ought to be subordinate to the rest of the Commissioners, and not to be joyned in equall power with them, although he was so constituted from the first institution, which hath been an opinion only of some to keep him at a distance, least he might be thought too forward if he had joynt power in discovering or argueing against that which peradventure private interest would have concealed; it is certaine no man sees more of the Navye's Transactions than himselfe, and possibly may speak as much to the project if required, or else he is a blockhead, and not fitt for that imployment . }}