Synonyms for employment
ɛmˈplɔɪ məntem·ploy·ment

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1. employmentnoun

   Synonyms:
   employ, hire

   Antonyms:
   unemployment, underemployment

2. employmentnoun

   A use, purpose

   Synonyms:
   employ, hire

   Antonyms:
   underemployment, unemployment

3. employmentnoun

   The act of employing

   The personnel director handled the whole employment procedure

   Synonyms:
   hire, employ

   Antonyms:
   unemployment, underemployment

4. employmentnoun

   The state of being employed

   Synonyms:
   employ, hire

   Antonyms:
   underemployment, unemployment

5. employmentnoun

   The work or occupation for which one is used, and often paid

   Synonyms:
   hire, employ

   Antonyms:
   unemployment, underemployment

6. employmentnoun

   An activity to which one devotes time

   Synonyms:
   employ, hire

   Antonyms:
   underemployment, unemployment

7. employmentnoun

   The number or percentage of people at work

   Synonyms:
   hire, employ

   Antonyms:
   underemployment, unemployment

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1. employment

   A business is what one follows regularly; an occupation is what he happens at any time to be engaged in; trout-fishing may be one's occupation for a time, as a relief from business; business is ordinarily for profit, while the occupation may be a matter of learning, philanthropy, or religion. A profession implies scholarship; as, the learned professions. Pursuit is an occupation which one follows with ardor. An avocation is what calls one away from other work; a vocation or calling, that to which one is called by some special fitness or sense of duty; thus, we speak of the gospel ministry as a vocation or calling, rather than a business. Trade or trading is, in general, the exchanging of one thing for another; in the special sense, a trade is an occupation involving manual training and skilled labor; as, the ancient Jews held that every boy should learn a trade. A transaction is a single action, whether in business, diplomacy, or otherwise; affair has a similar, but lighter meaning; as, this little affair; an important transaction. The plural affairs has a distinctive meaning, including all activities where men deal with one another on any considerable scale; as, a man of affairs. A job is a piece of work viewed as a single undertaking, and ordinarily paid for as such. Trade and commerce may be used as equivalents, but trade is capable of a more limited application; we speak of the trade of a village, the commerce of a nation. Barter is the direct exchange of commodities; business, trade, and commerce are chiefly transacted by means of money, bills of exchange, etc. Business, occupation, etc., may be what one does independently; employment may be in the service of another. Work is any application of energy to secure a result, or the result thus secured; thus, we speak of the work of God. Art in the industrial sense is a system of rules and accepted methods for the accomplishment of some practical result; as, the art of printing; collectively, the arts. A craft is some occupation requiring technical skill or manual dexterity, or the persons, collectively, engaged in its exercise; as, the weaver's craft.

   Synonyms:
   affair, art, avocation, barter, business, calling, commerce, concern, craft, duty, handicraft, job, occupation, profession, trade, trading, traffic, transaction, vocation, work

   Preposition:
   The business of a druggist; in business with his father; doing business for his father; have you business with me? business in New York; business about, concerning, or in regard to certain property.

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1. employment, employnoun

   the state of being employed or having a job

   "they are looking for employment"; "he was in the employ of the city"

   Synonyms:
   employ, use, utilisation, exercise, usage, work, utilization, engagement

   Antonyms:
   unemployment

2. employment, worknoun

   the occupation for which you are paid

   "he is looking for employment"; "a lot of people are out of work"

   Synonyms:
   employ, use, utilisation, workplace, exercise, study, usage, oeuvre, body of work, piece of work, work, utilization, engagement

   Antonyms:
   unemployment

3. employment, engagementnoun

   the act of giving someone a job

   Synonyms:
   conflict, fight, troth, usage, engagement, booking, involution, mesh, interlocking, battle, work, employ, utilization, utilisation, participation, involvement, betrothal, appointment, meshing, use, date, exercise

   Antonyms:
   unemployment

4. use, usage, utilization, utilisation, employment, exercisenoun

   the act of using

   "he warned against the use of narcotic drugs"; "skilled in the utilization of computers"

   Synonyms:
   exercising, usage, use, practice, custom, habit, engagement, workout, use of goods and services, consumption, usance, role, practice session, function, work, employ, utilization, utilisation, economic consumption, drill, physical exercise, example, manipulation, enjoyment, recitation, purpose, physical exertion, exercise

   Antonyms:
   unemployment

Matched Categories

1. • Action
   • Activity
   • Occupation
   • State

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. employmentnoun

   Synonyms:
   business, occupation, engagement, pursuit, AVOCATION, calling, profession, trade, craft

2. employmentnoun

   Synonyms:
   service, agency, office, EMPLOY

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1. List of paraphrases for "employment":

   jobs, job, use, labour, work, employed, working, hiring, unemployment, 'emploi, empleo, recruitment, labor, placement, employing, emploi, employ, occupation, werkgelegenheid, employability, occupational

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How to use employment in a sentence?

1. Aaron Cheris:

   The pandemic has impacted nearly every inch of the retail industry, however, heading into this holiday season, we also see important tailwinds for nominal retail growth, including boosts from inflation, rebounding employment, healthy savings rates and wage growth.

2. Eric Adams:

   We have low-skilled employees who can't do remote employment from home, or telecommuting, it is time to open up, and feed our ecosystem, our financial ecosystem.

3. Janet Yellen:

   I would expect that if this package is passed that we would get back to full employment next year.

4. Michel Serres:

   Mining needs a revolution to avoid retention or employment issues, working with stone-age technologies is not sexy for technicians or engineers coming out of school.

5. Mira Sorvino:

   Primary and especially secondary education is extremely important in preventing trafficking, it allows children to develop critical thinking skills to be able to defend themselves from traffickers and to have the skills that will enable them to have gainful employment to be able to support their families in other ways than being sexually exploited.