employment

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The occupation or work for which one is used, and often paid. countable,uncountable
    — [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.
  2. The act of employing. countable,uncountable
    — The personnel director handled the whole employment procedure
  3. The state of being employed. countable,uncountable
    — […] King Henry [VIII] full fraught all thoſe vvith vvealth and revvards, vvhom he retained in his imployment.
  4. A purpose, a use. countable,uncountable
    — This new employment of his time caused no relaxation in his attention to my education.
  5. An activity to which one devotes time. countable,uncountable
  6. The number or percentage of people at work. countable,uncountable

词形变化

employments plural imployment alternative

词汇关系

近义词
employ hire
反义词
disemployment unemployment
衍生词
antiemployment at-will employment at will employment co-employment employment agency employment at will employment-at-will employment contract employment history employment tribunal full employment malemployment misemployment nonemployment outside employment overemployment preemployment reemployment self-employment subemployment underemployment written statement of employment
相关词
employ employable employed employee employer

词源

From employ (itself from Middle French employer, from Middle French empleier, from Latin implicō (“enfold, involve, be connected with”), itself from in- + plicō (“fold”)) + -ment.
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