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Vacancy :: Vacancy (n.) The quality or state of being vacant; emptiness; hence, freedom from employment; intermission; leisure; idleness; listlessness..

Exercise :: Exercise (v. t.) To set in action; to cause to act, move, or make exertion; to give employment to; to put in action habitually or constantly; to school or train; to exert repeatedly; to busy..

Saddlery :: Saddlery (n.) The trade or employment of a saddler.

Discharge :: Discharge (v. t.) To relieve of an office or employment; to send away from service; to dismiss.

Bookselling :: Bookselling (n.) The employment of selling books.

Situation :: Situation (n.) Permanent position or employment; place; office; as, a situation in a store; a situation under government..

Without :: Without (prep.) Not with; otherwise than with; in absence of, separation from, or destitution of; not with use or employment of; independently of; exclusively of; with omission; as, without labor; without damage..

Play :: Play (n.) Action; use; employment; exercise; practice; as, fair play; sword play; a play of wit..

Ratten :: Ratten (v. t.) To deprive feloniously of the tools used in one's employment (as by breaking or stealing them), for the purpose of annoying; as, to ratten a mechanic who works during a strike..

Task :: Task (v.) Business; employment; undertaking; labor.

Epiploce :: Epiploce (n.) A figure by which one striking circumstance is added, in due gradation, to another; climax; e. g., He not only spared his enemies, but continued them in employment; not only continued, but advanced them..

Theatine :: Theatine (n.) One of an order of Italian monks, established in 1524, expressly to oppose Reformation, and to raise the tone of piety among Roman Catholics. They hold no property, nor do they beg, but depend on what Providence sends. Their chief employment is preaching and giving religious instruction..

Trade :: Trade (v.) Course; custom; practice; occupation; employment.

Laundress :: Laundress (n.) A woman whose employment is laundering.

Amanuensis :: Amanuensis (n.) A person whose employment is to write what another dictates, or to copy what another has written..

Call :: Call (v. t.) To summon to the discharge of a particular duty; to designate for an office, or employment, especially of a religious character; -- often used of a divine summons; as, to be called to the ministry; sometimes, to invite; as, to call a minister to be the pastor of a church..

Shipping :: Shipping (a.) Relating to ships, their ownership, transfer, or employment; as, shiping concerns..

Accountancy :: Accountancy (n.) The art or employment of an accountant.

Bounce :: Bounce (v. t.) To eject violently, as from a room; to discharge unceremoniously, as from employment..

Wear :: Wear (v. i.) To endure or suffer use; to last under employment; to bear the consequences of use, as waste, consumption, or attrition; as, a coat wears well or ill; -- hence, sometimes applied to character, qualifications, etc.; as, a man wears well as an acquaintance..

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