employment

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  1. noun The act of employing.
  2. noun The state of being employed.
  3. noun The work in which one is engaged; occupation.

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occupation ·  development ·  labor ·  education ·  use ·  investment ·  service ·  supply ·  job ·  improvement ·  exercise ·  assistance
Roget's II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition by the Editors of the American Heritage® Dictionary. Copyright © 2003, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
 

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/ɛmˈplɔɪmənt/
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