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発音

• IPA^(key): /ɪmˈplɔɪmənt/, /ɛmˈplɔɪmənt/

名詞

employment (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 employments)

1. The work or occupation for which one is used, and often paid
2. The act of employing
3. A use, purpose
   • 1873, John Stuart Mill, Autobiography of John Stuart Mill:

     This new employment of his time caused no relaxation in his attention to my education.

   The personnel director handled the whole employment procedure

4. The state of being employed
   • 1853, Herman Melville, Bartleby, the Scrivener, in Billy Budd, Sailor and Other Stories, New York: Penguin Books, 1968; reprint 1995 as Bartleby, ISBN 0 14 60.0012 9, p.3:

     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.

5. An activity to which one devotes time
6. (economics) The number or percentage of people at work

同意語

• employ
• hire

反意語

• disemployment
• unemployment

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