employment

noun6

1. •
   The state of being employed.

   • The percentage of a country's population in employment used to be called "participation rate".
2. •
   The occupation or work for which one is used, and often paid.
3. •
   An activity to which one devotes time.
4. •
   The number or percentage of people at work.
5. •
   The act of employing.

   • The personnel director handled the whole employment procedure
6. •
   A purpose, a use.

   • This new employment of his time caused no relaxation in his attention to my education. — 1873