employment
Definitions
noun
The occupation or work for which one is used, and often paid.
[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 act of employing.
The personnel director handled the whole employment procedure
The state of being employed.
[…] King Henry [VIII] full fraught all thoſe vvith vvealth and revvards, vvhom he retained in his imployment.
At the period just preceding the advent of Bartleby, I had two persons as copyists in my employment, and a promising lad as an office-boy.
A purpose, a use.
This new employment of his time caused no relaxation in his attention to my education.
An activity to which one devotes time.