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Definition of Employment agency
1. Noun. An agency that finds people to fill particular jobs or finds jobs for unemployed people.
Definition of Employment agency
1. Noun. An organisation that matches employers to employees. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Employment Agency
Literary usage of Employment agency
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Unemployed and Public Employment Agencies by Edwin Hardin Sutherland (1914)
"The public employment agency is an institution managed or supported by a public
body for the purpose of enabling employers ..."
2. The Boycott in American Trade Unions by Leo Wolman (1916)
"The bureau is directed to collect statistics, to operate a free employment agency,
to arbitrate labor disputes, and to enforce child labor laws. Statistics. ..."
3. Think and Act: A Series of Articles Pertaining to Men and Women, Work and Wages by Virginia Penny (1869)
"... LADIES* employment agency, object of such an agency as I suggest is to furnish
JL employment to women, and to be the means of opening more occupations, ..."
4. Annual Report of the Commissioner of Labor by New York (State). Dept. of Labor (1915)
"The term " employment agency" means and includes the business of conducting, as
owner, agent, manager, contractor, subcontractor or in any other capacity an ..."
5. Report by Industrial Commission of Ohio, Dept. of Investigation and Statistics (1916)
"No person connected with a private employment agency shall send a female or cause
her to be sent to a place of bad" repute, house of ill-fame ..."
6. State Administration in Maryland by John Donaldson (1916)
"The bureau is directed to collect statistics, to operate a free employment agency,
to arbitrate labor disputes, and to enforce child labor laws. Statistics. ..."
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