What does employment mean?
Employment means The occupation or work for which one is used, and often paid..
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/ɪmˈplɔɪmənt/ · noun
The occupation or work for which one is used, and often paid..
[I]t is certaine no man sees more of the Navye's Transactions than himselfe [the Clerk of the Acts], and possibly may speak as much to the project if required, or else he is a blockhead, and not fitt for that imployment.
The personnel director handled the whole employment procedure
[…] King Henry [VIII] full fraught all thoſe vvith vvealth and revvards, vvhom he retained in his imployment.
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.
This new employment of his time caused no relaxation in his attention to my education.
Use employment when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Employment means The occupation or work for which one is used, and often paid..
Common synonyms include employ, hire, work, engagement.
Possible antonyms include disemployment, unemployment.
[I]t is certaine no man sees more of the Navye's Transactions than himselfe [the Clerk of the Acts], and possibly may speak as much to the project if required, or else he is a blockhead, and not fitt for that imployment.
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