Usually means: Work for pay or profit.
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We found 48 dictionaries that define the word employment:

General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. employment: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. employment: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. employment: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. employment: Collins English Dictionary
  5. employment: Vocabulary.com
  6. Employment, employment: Wordnik
  7. employment: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. employment: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. employment: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. employment: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. employment: Dictionary.com
  12. employment: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  13. Employment (album), Employment (short story), Employment: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Employment: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. employment: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. employment: Rhymezone
  17. employment: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. employment: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. employment: Free Dictionary
  20. employment: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. employment: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  22. employment: Dictionary/thesaurus
  23. employment: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  24. employment: Wiktionary

Business (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. employment: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  2. employment: Law.com Dictionary
  3. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  5. Employment: Deardorff's Glossary of International Economics
  6. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  7. employment: Legal dictionary
  8. Employment: Accounting, Business Studies and Economics Dictionary
  9. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. employment: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Employment: MedFriendly Glossary
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. employment: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Agricultural Thesaurus and Glossary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Employment: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms (No longer online)

(Note: See employments as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  The occupation or work for which one is used, and often paid.
noun:  The act of employing.
noun:  The state of being employed.
noun:  A purpose, a use.
noun:  An activity to which one devotes time.
noun:  (economics) The number or percentage of people at work.

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