| 单词 | in employment |
| 释义 | > as lemmasin (also into, out of) employment b. The state or condition of being so employed; the state of working for an employer, esp. in return for wages. Chiefly in in (also into, out of) employment. ΚΠ 1590 T. Digges Breife Rep. Proc. Reliefe Sluce 11 So did I also during that my imployment, labour to my vtmost power to haue such good Lawes and Ordinances established. 1606 R. Knolles tr. J. Bodin Six Bks. Common-weale iii. ii. 281 That Pompee in that time might end the warre, and not longer to protract it to be so alwaies in imployment. 1665 G. Havers tr. P. della Valle Trav. E. India 82 Bartolomeo Pontobuoni, a good Painter, and also a man of much Employment. a1680 S. Butler Genuine Remains (1759) II. 165 He will..rather pettyfog and turn common Barreter, than be out of Employment. 1767 Ld. Holland 25 June in London Mag. July (1769) 389/2 Though I have been two years out of employment, the payments for my time are not yet completed. a1797 M. Wollstonecraft Maria (1799) v. 82 Irksome as servitude would have been to me, I should have made another trial, had it been feasible. Not that I disliked employment. 1881 Chicago Times 30 Apr. All train men..now in employment on the road. 1940 Oxf. Econ. Papers Feb. 168 The average weekly pay packet, while in employment, of the 45 men interviewed..was 58s. 2009 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 16 July 10 They could spend an awfully long time never having experienced employment. < as lemmas |
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