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English Dictionary: employment' by the DICT Development Group
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Employment \Em*ploy"ment\, n.
      1. The act of employing or using; also, the state of being
            employed.
  
      2. That which engages or occupies; that which consumes time
            or attention; office or post of business; service; as,
            agricultural employments; mechanical employments; public
            employments; in the employment of government.
  
                     Cares are employments, and without employ The soul
                     is on a rack.                                    --Young.
  
      Syn: Work; business; occupation; vocation; calling; office;
               service; commission; trade; profession.
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