Definition of employment

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Employment (n.) The act of employing or using; also, the state of being employed..

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Employ :: Employ (v. t.) To have or keep at work; to give employment or occupation to; to intrust with some duty or behest; as, to employ a hundred workmen; to employ an envoy..
Spiritualist :: Spiritualist (n.) One who professes a regard for spiritual things only; one whose employment is of a spiritual character; an ecclesiastic.
Exercise :: Exercise (n.) The act of exercising; a setting in action or practicing; employment in the proper mode of activity; exertion; application; use; habitual activity; occupation, in general; practice..
Misemployment :: Misemployment (n.) Wrong or mistaken employment.
Artiste :: Artiste (n.) One peculiarly dexterous and tasteful in almost any employment, as an opera dancer, a hairdresser, a cook..
Absorption :: Absorption (n.) Entire engrossment or occupation of the mind; as, absorption in some employment..
Bounce :: Bounce (v. t.) To eject violently, as from a room; to discharge unceremoniously, as from employment..
Intendancy :: Intendancy (n.) The office or employment of an intendant.
Preclude :: Preclude (v.) To shut out by anticipative action; to prevent or hinder by necessary consequence or implication; to deter action of, access to, employment of, etc.; to render ineffectual; to obviate by anticipation..
Stereotypery :: Stereotypery (n.) The art, process, or employment of making stereotype plates..
Leisurable :: Leisurable (a.) Vacant of employment; not occupied; idle; leisure; as leisurable hours.
Amanuensis :: Amanuensis (n.) A person whose employment is to write what another dictates, or to copy what another has written..
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..
Situation :: Situation (n.) Permanent position or employment; place; office; as, a situation in a store; a situation under government..
Commissaryship :: Commissaryship (n.) The office or employment of a commissary.
Errantry :: Errantry (n.) The employment of a knight-errant.
Lumberman :: Lumberman (n.) One who is engaged in lumbering as a business or employment.
Use :: Use (v. t.) The act of employing anything, or of applying it to one's service; the state of being so employed or applied; application; employment; conversion to some purpose; as, the use of a pen in writing; his machines are in general use..
Avocation :: Avocation (n.) That which calls one away from one's regular employment or vocation.
Call :: Call (n.) Vocation; employment.
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