Noun

(en noun)

A person who practices a profession or art, especially law or medicine.

*{{quote-magazine, date=2014-06-21, volume=411, issue=8892, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= Magician’s brain , passage=The [Isaac] Newton that emerges from the [unpublished] manuscripts is far from the popular image of a rational practitioner of cold and pure reason. The architect of modern science was himself not very modern. He was obsessed with alchemy.}}

One who does anything customarily or habitually.

(label) A sly or artful person.

* John Whitgift

the men of St. John's were cunning practitioners , in shaking off their Masters and Heads.

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