employment
The occupation or work for which one is used, and often paid.
Noun 4 meanings
The occupation or work for which one is used, and often paid.
The act of employing.
“The personnel director handled the whole employment procedure”
The state of being employed.
“The percentage of a country's population in employment used to be called "participation rate".”
A purpose, a use.
Etymology
From employ (itself from Middle French employer, from Middle French empleier, from Latin implicō (“enfold, involve, be connected with”), itself from in- + plicō (“fold”)) + -ment.
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EMPLOYMENT at a glance
EMPLOYMENT has 10 letters and scores 19 points in Scrabble (E 1 + M 3 + P 3 + L 1 + O 1 + Y 4 + M 3 + E 1 + N 1 + T 1) and 23 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #2,616 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
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