Search Result for "employment":
Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (4)
1. the state of being employed or having a job;
- Example: "they are looking for employment"
- Example: "he was in the employ of the city"
[syn: employment, employ]
2. the occupation for which you are paid;
- Example: "he is looking for employment"
- Example: "a lot of people are out of work"
[syn: employment, work]
3. the act of giving someone a job;
[syn: employment, engagement]
4. the act of using;
- Example: "he warned against the use of narcotic drugs"
- Example: "skilled in the utilization of computers"
[syn: use, usage, utilization, utilisation, employment, exercise]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Employment \Em*ploy"ment\, n. 1. The act of employing or using; also, the state of being employed. [1913 Webster] 2. 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. [1913 Webster] Cares are employments, and without employ The soul is on a rack. --Young. Syn: Work; business; occupation; vocation; calling; office; service; commission; trade; profession. [1913 Webster]Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
142 Moby Thesaurus words for "employment": act, acting, action, active use, activism, activities, activity, affair, affairs, appliance, application, appointment, assignment, attendance, bag, behavior, berth, bespeaking, billet, booking, briefing, business, calling, commerce, concern, concernment, consumption, craft, dirty work, disposition, doing, donkeywork, drudgery, employ, engagement, engaging, enlistment, enrollment, enterprise, exercise, exercising, exertion, exploitation, fag, fatigue, function, functioning, gig, good use, grind, handiwork, handling, handwork, hard usage, hard use, hire, hiring, ill use, implementation, incumbency, industry, interest, job, labor, lick, lick of work, line, livelihood, lookout, management, manipulation, manual labor, matter, metier, ministration, ministry, mission, misuse, moil, moonlighting, movements, occupation, office, opening, operation, operations, peonage, place, play, position, post, practice, praxis, preengagement, profession, purpose, pursuit, racket, rat race, recruitment, reservation, retaining, retainment, rough usage, scut work, second job, serfdom, service, servitium, servitorship, servitude, situation, skill, slavery, spadework, station, stroke, stroke of work, sweat, swing, taking on, task, tendance, tenure, thing, tiresome work, toil, trade, travail, treadmill, undertaking, usage, use, using, using up, utilization, vacancy, vocation, work, working, workings, wrong use
