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say it: em-PLOY-muhnt
employment is a noun meaning "the state of being employed or having a job". It carries 4 recorded senses.
the state of being employed or having a job
“they are looking for employment”
“he was in the employ of the city”
the occupation for which you are paid
“he is looking for employment”
“a lot of people are out of work”
the act of giving someone a job
the act of using
“he warned against the use of narcotic drugs”
“skilled in the utilization of computers”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for employment come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.