Employment is a contract between two parties, one being the employer and the other being the employee. An employee may be defined as:

"A person in the service of another under any contract of hire, express or implied, oral or written, where the employer has the power or right to control and direct the employee in the material details of how the work is to be performed."

Black's Law Dictionary page 471 (5th ed. 1979).

Noun

Employment

Wikipedia employment (countable and uncountable; plural employments)

1. 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.

2. The act of employing

   The personnel director handled the whole employment procedure

3. The state of being employed

   1853 Melville, Herman 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.

4. The work or occupation for which one is used, and often paid
5. An activity to which one devotes time
6. (economics) The number or percentage of people at work

Synonyms

• employ
• hire

Employment

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Quotes about employment:

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  • 1.1 Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations
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• One of the best maxims in determining our course in life is, to select, at the outset, that in which virtue and principle will be least likely to be put to a test, and in which, from the nature of the calling, a man may bring around him such associations and influences as will be an auxiliary in keeping him in the path of virtue.
  • Albert Barnes, reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 437.

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