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Definition of Employments
1. employment [n] - See also: employment
Lexicographical Neighbors of Employments
Literary usage of Employments
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1890)
"All these causee of differences of wages in different employments may be ...
(2) IB some employments, however, law and custom tend unduly to increase the ..."
2. Journal of the Statistical Society of London by Statistical Society (Great Britain) (1845)
"On the Causes which determine the Choice of an Employment; being an Addition to
the Essays on the Influence of employments upon Health. ..."
3. The Works of Jeremy Bentham by Jeremy Bentham, John Bowring (1843)
"By collateral employments at large, understand such as are so with reference to,
and are by this name distinguished from,others, considered as the ..."
4. Principles of Labor Legislation by John Rogers Commons, John Bertram Andrews (1920)
"A compensation system should apply to all employments and cover all injuries.
... (a) employments Included. Nine main groups of workers are commonly ..."
5. Principles of Political Economy, with Some of Their Applications to Social by John Stuart Mill (1893)
"The influence exercised on production by the separation of employments, ...
"Without some separation of employments, very few things would be produced at ..."
6. The Positive Philosophy of Auguste Comte by Auguste Comte (1853)
"The more we look into the subject, the more we shall sec that the appropriation
of employments, which is the elementary principle of general society, ..."