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Word entry · 10 letters

employment

Best crossword clue

"use of something"

10 letters · collected on this word page

10 lettersPronunciation /ɪmˈplɔɪmənt/Part of speech nounSorted eelmmnoptyStarts with EEnds with T2 cluesVery common crossword word
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Definitions

  1. the occupation for which you are paid

Word origin

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.

Used in a sentence

  • [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.
  • The personnel director handled the whole employment procedure
  • […] King Henry [VIII] full fraught all thoſe vvith vvealth and revvards, vvhom he retained in his imployment.

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Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues

01use of something10 letters
02Paid work10 letters

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