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countable and uncountable, plural employments
The work or occupation for which one is used, and often paid examples
The act of employing examples
A use, purpose quotations examples
This new employment of his time caused no relaxation in his attention to my education.
1873, John Stuart Mill, Autobiography of John Stuart Mill
The state of being employed quotations examples
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.
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
An activity to which one devotes time examples
(economics) The number or percentage of people at work examples