Definition of employment

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Employment (n.) That which engages or occupies; that which consumes time or attention; office or post of business; service; as, agricultural employments; mechanical employments; public employments; in the employment of government..

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Leisurable :: Leisurable (a.) Vacant of employment; not occupied; idle; leisure; as leisurable hours.
Industry :: Industry (n.) Habitual diligence in any employment or pursuit, either bodily or mental; steady attention to business; assiduity; -- opposed to sloth and idleness; as, industry pays debts, while idleness or despair will increase them..
Misemployment :: Misemployment (n.) Wrong or mistaken employment.
Birdcatcher :: Birdcatcher (n.) One whose employment it is to catch birds; a fowler.
Espionage :: Espionage (n.) The practice or employment of spies; the practice of watching the words and conduct of others, to make discoveries, as spies or secret emissaries; secret watching..
Dismission :: Dismission (n.) Removal from office or employment; discharge, either with honor or with disgrace..
Administration :: Administration (n.) The act of administering; government of public affairs; the service rendered, or duties assumed, in conducting affairs; the conducting of any office or employment; direction; management..
Disemployment :: Disemployment (n.) The state of being disemployed, or deprived of employment..
Colleague :: Colleague (n.) A partner or associate in some civil or ecclesiastical office or employment. It is never used of partners in trade or manufactures.
Task :: Task (v.) Business; employment; undertaking; labor.
Practice :: Practice (v. i.) To apply theoretical science or knowledge, esp. by way of experiment; to exercise or pursue an employment or profession, esp. that of medicine or of law..
Private :: Private (a.) Not invested with, or engaged in, public office or employment; as, a private citizen; private life..
Overslaugh :: Overslaugh (v. t.) To hinder or stop, as by an overslaugh or an impediment; as, to overslaugh a bill in a legislative body; to overslaugh a military officer, that is, to hinder his promotion or employment..
Usance :: Usance (v. t.) Use; usage; employment.
Stereotypery :: Stereotypery (n.) The art, process, or employment of making stereotype plates..
Shipping :: Shipping (a.) Relating to ships, their ownership, transfer, or employment; as, shiping concerns..
Dawdler :: Dawdler (n.) One who wastes time in trifling employments; an idler; a trifler.
Vacancy :: Vacancy (n.) The quality or state of being vacant; emptiness; hence, freedom from employment; intermission; leisure; idleness; listlessness..
Discharge :: Discharge (v. t.) To relieve of an office or employment; to send away from service; to dismiss.
Arduous :: Arduous (a.) Attended with great labor, like the ascending of acclivities; difficult; laborious; as, an arduous employment, task, or enterprise..
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