employment
/ɪmˈplɔɪmənt/ noun B1- The occupation or work for which one is used, and often paid.
- The act of employing. · The personnel director handled the whole employment procedure
- The state of being employed. · The percentage of a country's population in employment used to be called "participation rate".
- A purpose, a use.
- An activity to which one devotes time.
- The number or percentage of people at work.
Plural employments
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Bertuccio, according to the command which had been given him, had two hours before left for Auteuil, when a cab stopped at the door, and after depositing its occupant at the gate, immediately hurried away, as if ashamed of its employment.
Elizabeth would not oppose such an injunction; and a moment’s consideration making her also sensible that it would be wisest to get it over as soon and as quietly as possible, she sat down again, and tried to conceal, by incessant employment, the feelings which were divided between distress and diversion.
She had also to anticipate how her visit would pass, the quiet tenour of their usual employments, the vexatious interruptions of Mr.
Collins devoted his mornings to driving him out in his gig, and showing him the country: but when he went away, the whole family returned to their usual employments, and Elizabeth was thankful to find that they did not see more of her cousin by the alteration; for the chief of the time between breakfast and dinner was now passed by him either at work in the garden, or in reading and writing, and looking out of window in his own book room, which fronted the road.
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